lintie
Britishnoun
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The gladsome lark o'er moor and fell, The lintie in the bosky dell, Nae blyther than your bonnie sel', My ain, my artless Mary.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
“The gladsome lark o’er moor and fell, The lintie in the bosky dell, No blither than your bonnie sel’, My ain, my artless Mary.”
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables
She was a noble woman, and you're but a heather lintie of a lass to come of a good kind.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Sarah Tytler
By these remarks I mean to express the feeling that the word lintie conveys to my mind more of tenderness and endearment towards the little songster than linnet.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
An’ noo, to that melodious play, A’ deidly awn the quiet sway— A’ ken their solemn holiday, Bestial an’ human, The singin’ lintie on the brae, The restin’ plou’man.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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