"Stane" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... here," he panted, indicating a little platform about two feet broad, and running along the full length of the "scree." "You'll watch for every bit stane that comes doon, an' dinna' let any past. Pick them oot as soon as you see them, an' fling them owre there, an' Dickie Tamson'll fill them into the hutch, an' get them taken ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh
... aye. They're that unreasonable, an' yet ye canna reason them down; an' they're that weak, an' yet ye canna make them gie in tae ye. Of course, ye'll say ye canna reason doon a stane, or make a clod o' ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various
... his wife, a week but only four, When, mournfu' as I sat on the stane at the door, I saw my Jamie's ghaist—I couldna think it he, Till he said, "I'm come hame, love, ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... hurry yourself for that, Simon Glover," quoth the obdurate old woman; "the best and the worst of it may be tauld before you could hobble over your door stane. I ken the haill story abroad; 'for,' thought I, 'our goodman is so wilful that he'll be for banging out to the tuilzie, be the cause what it like; and sae I maun e'en stir my shanks, and learn the cause of all this, or he will hae his auld nose in the midst of it, and maybe get it nipt ...
— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott
... I have no land, I have no pearl, nor precious stane; But I wald sell my silken snood, To see the ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... questioned, described the process of making "salt-rising" bread, and to the recipe added a friendly caution, that, if allowed to ferment too long, the dough would become "as sad and dour as a stane, and though you br'ak your heart over it, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various |
