lintie
Britishnoun
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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
Protected from suspicion, her spirits rose all the cheerier for their temporary depression, and she went singing about the house like a lintie.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
“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
The laverock and the lintie, The robin and the wren; Gin ye harry their nests, Ye'll never thrive again.
From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford
Or the sang o' the lintie, Whan wooin' his bride?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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