ferlie
- a variation of ferly.
Example Sentences
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“Whaur are gaun crawlin’ ferlie, Your impudence protects ye sairly.”
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon
True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank; A ferlie he spied with his e'e; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree.
From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee
Whae’er ye be that woman love, To this be never blind, Nae ferlie ’tis tho’ fickle she prove, A woman has’t by kind.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
It swung for the braw Chevalier and Prince Charlie, 'Twas stained at Drummossie with Sassenach gore: It sleeps now in peace, a dark history's ferlie, Oh! ne'er may be wakened the Highland Claymore.
From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad by Macbain, Alexander
True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank; A ferlie he spied wi' his ee; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon Tree.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
