scaur
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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On what abhorred an’ whinny scaur, Or whammled in what sea o’ glaur, Will she desert me?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
List'ning the doors an' winnocks rattle; I think me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scaur!
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
The peasant lad unyokes his car, The star of even shines bright and far, And lights me to the flood-torn scaur, To meet my young Eliza.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
“The puir bonny Master, and the puir kind lads that rade wi’ him, were hardly ower the scaur or he was aff—the Judis!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
A further jaunt amid varied beauties of woodland shade and meadow sunshine, of gentle dale and savage scaur, brings us past historic Closeburn to the neighborhood of Thornhill.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
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