"Siller" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ain wife Kate's advice! She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum; That frae November till October Ae market-day thou was na sober; That ilka melder, wi' the miller, Thou sat as lang as thou had siller; That ev'ry naig was ca'd a shoe on, The smith and thee gat roaring fou on; That at the L—d's house, even on Sunday, Thou drank wi' Kirkton Jean till Monday. She prophesy'd that, late or soon, Thou would be found deep drown'd in Doon; Or catch'd wi' warlocks in ...
— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant
... not grudge the siller. And I've had a pride in you, Alexander. Now you'll be the laird. Now let's sit quiet ...
— Foes • Mary Johnston
... no saying there mightn't be a bit siller coming to me; a few hundred pounds, more or less—sterling, man, sterling; not Scots," he added hastily. And then, as if it were best to leave this nail as it was driven, he changed the subject abruptly. ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... Laird's Jock. "The fool, as thou callest him, hath already stolen two good horses, and to send another after him would but be sending good siller ...
— Tales From Scottish Ballads • Elizabeth W. Grierson
... are guid. We've saved a pickle siller. Faither can spare me for a wee while—sae I'm aff ...
— The Garret and the Garden • R.M. Ballantyne
... Wat; but I wad advise ye to stick in to Skinny. He has siller, they say, an' maybe ye'll finger it ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... poller sawe the preste was tourned, he snatched vp the purs, and toke his legges and to go.[170] The preste rounne after with the vestement on his backe: and the vestement-maker after the prest. The prest bad stop the thefe, the siller bad stop the prest, the poller bade holde the mad preste, and euery man wende[171] he had ben mad in dede, bicause he had the vestement on his backe; and so whyle one letted an other, the false ...
— Shakespeare Jest-Books; - Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed - to Have Been Used by Shakespeare • Unknown
... tune:— "Come to my water-house, Annie Maroon: Come in your dimity, Ribbon on head, To wear siller seaweed ...
— Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes - Volume II. • Walter de la Mare
... maun pay for the bit fruitie; for King James's auld soldier has nae siller of his ain save twa guineas for Jock Headsman," quoth he in his jocular manner, meaning that those about him must pay for the Gooseberries; for indeed this Lord was very poor, and I have heard was, when in town, so much driven as to borrow money from the man who keeps the Tennis-court ...
— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 • George Augustus Sala
... wad like to see ye mysel, but I canna win for want o' siller, and as I thought ye might be writin a buke about the Scotch when ye get hame, I hae just sent ye this bit auld ...
— Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 (of 2) • Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe
... Davy! Virtue's aye rewarded, they say. This is mine, and I doot not there'll be some siller intilt." ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne
... as a suggestion that a thing had better be done at present than put off till a future time, or vice versa. "Ae wise body's eneugh in the married state. But if your heart's ower fu', take what siller will serve ye, and let it be when ye come back again—as gude ...
— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop
... a letter, Sealed it with her finger, Threw it in the dam For the dusty miller. Dusty was his coat, Dusty was the siller, Dusty was the kiss I'd from the dusty miller. If I had my pockets Full of gold and siller, I would give it ...
— The Real Mother Goose • (Illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright)
... no grist for the mill or siller for the till, But I've kept the mill-wheel turning To the rumble and the beat of a million marching feet, And my sad heart's muffled yearning. Oh, the road his brave feet trod, lit with glory up to God, Oh, the courage of his call shames my sorrow; "I'll be back some day— Mind the mill while I'm ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times
... needit the money, mon, an' the lad he needit the noorsin', an' it was doin' a bit double good wi' ma siller, do ye see?" ...
— Burnham Breaker • Homer Greene
... shill in a siller whustle; An' tramp, tramp, doon the pier Cam twenty men on twenty horses, Clankin wi' ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... wi' patterns o' siller, I've an ermine hood like the hat o' a miller, I've chains o' coral like rowan berries, An' a cramoisie mantle ...
— Nets to Catch the Wind • Elinor Wylie
... had I wist before I kiss'd That love had been so ill to win, I'd lock'd my heart in a case o' goud, And pinn'd it wi' a siller pin. Oh, oh! if my young babe were born, And set upon the nurse's knee; An' I mysel' were dead and gane, And the green grass ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... Tammas, if I was to pit my name till't, ye wad get the siller frae the bank, and when the time came round, ye wadna be ready, and I wad hae to pay't; sae then you and me wad quarrel; sae we mae just as weel quarrel the noo, as lang's the ...
— Life and Literature - Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, - and classified in alphabetical order • J. Purver Richardson
... I dare trust Robin's fiddle to ye,' said Willie, bluntly. His wife gave him a twitch. 'Hout awa, Maggie,' he said in contempt of the hint; 'though the gentleman may hae gien ye siller, he may have nae bowhand for a' that, and I'll no trust Robin's fiddle wi' an ignoramus. But that's no sae muckle amiss,' he added, as I began to touch the instrument; 'I am thinking ye have some ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum,[53] A blethering,[54] blustering, drunken blellum[55]; That frae November till October, Ae market-day thou was nae sober; That ilka melder,[56] wi' the miller, Thou sat as lang as thou had siller; That every naig was ca'd a shoe on,[57] The smith and thee gat roaring fou on; That at the Lord's house, ev'n on Sunday, Thou drank wi' Kirkton Jean[58] till Monday. She prophesied that, late or soon, Thou would be found deep drowned in Doon; Or catched wi' warlocks in the mirk, By Alloway's ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... walk in silk attire, Nor siller hae to spare, Gin I must from my true love part, Nor think ...
— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis
... think it'll do any guid," said old Tam Smith, when Geordie called upon him. "It's a' richt talkin' about a union, but the mair ye fecht the mair ye're oppressed. The bosses ha'e the siller, an' they can ay buy the brains to ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh
... is exactly what I wanted; so clean and quiet! I'm much obliged to you for allowing me to use it." "You pay siller, sir, and there's nae call to say thank you!" With the words she closed the door, and was gone. And somehow, the tone of reserve and the positive click of the latch made him feel that there would be ...
— A Daughter of Fife • Amelia Edith Barr
... the calash, lad, it's of no use to you," he added; "it will never make a sail, nor even an ensign. I'm thinking, Eau-douce, you'd no' be sorry to see its value in good siller of ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... bottom of my heart, Esther, for having to bide in Thrums, but you have never seen no better, your man having neither the siller nor the desire to take yon jaunts, and I'm thinking that is just as well, for if you saw how the like of me lives it might disgust you with your own bit house. I often laugh, Esther, to think that I was once like you, and ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... indignantly refused the piece of silver Flora proffered in return for her services. "Hout, leddy! keep the siller! I wudna' tak' aught fra' ye o' the Sabbath-day for a trifling act o' courtesy—na, na, I come of too ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... what's to be done in this matter, and will bring you, most likely, a solemn declaration that he never shot at a popinjay in his life. And you're really going to end the conversation without asking me for a loan? You're not going to be like Virtus, post nummos after the siller, as a ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various
... or ten minutes, or, at maist, a quarter of an hour's patience, and look at the fine moonlight prospect of the Bass and North Berwick Law till I sort the horses, I would marshal ye up, as reason is ye suld be marshalled, your lordship and your honourable visitor. And I hae lockit up the siller candlesticks, and the ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... urgently in need of siller, and as we have failed to get money honestly we will have to see what a bazaar ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... see, you have one thing already in your favour. You have a wee bit o' siller in your pouch. It is a nest egg, though; it is not to be spent—it is there to bring more beside it. Now, will I tell you how I got on in the world? I'm not rich, but I am in a fair way to be independent. I am very fond ...
— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables |
