stane
Americannoun
noun
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A wall’s no better than the weakest stane in it, lad, and when you’ve built her you guard her day and night, summer and winter, frost, fire and flood, if you want her to last.
From In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey
Had I a statue been o’ stane, His daring look had daunted me; And on his bonnet graved was plain, The sacred posy, ‘Libertie.’
From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes
Belinkin was as gude a mason As e'er pickt a stane; He built up Prime Castle, But payment gat nane.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
He's built a bower, made it secure 30 Wi' carbuncle and stane; Tho' travellers were never sae nigh, Appearance it had nane.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
"O healy, healy take me up,85 And healy set me down; And set my back until a wa', My foot to yird-fast stane."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
Then he staned the cats that cam' rinnin' to beg for milk an' cheese—cats that never war clodded afore.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The boy's no' partial-like to ministers—ye'll excuse me for sayin'—ever since he fell oot wi' the minister's loon, and staned him aff the Drumquhat grund.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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