lintie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 MacDonald, George
One was content with a flower-pot; another took a cage in which she had a lintie; some of them half-finished patterns of embroidery.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John
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 A Lowden Sabbath Morn by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Tytler, Sarah
The nest o' a lintie I fondly explored, And plundering bykes was the game I adored; My pleasures did vary, as I was unsteady, Yet I always found something that pleased when a laddie.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
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