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Quoth Rab to Kate, My sonsy dear, I've wooed ye mair than ha' a year, An' if ye'd wed me ne'er cou'd speer, Wi' blateness, an' the care o't.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

"Just to hide the blateness of you," she answered.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

Quoth Rab to Kate, My sonsy dear, I 've woo'd ye mair than half a-year, An' if ye 'd wed me, ne'er cou'd speer Wi' blateness, an' the care o't.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

But at first, Duncan there, if he gets over his blateness, will be more of their age, and fear them less.”

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

And so, without a shadow of blateness, there stepped “ben” Tom and Eben and Rob.

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)