"Loof" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no ae tooth, Cowe the nettle, stoo the nettle; Auld gluive wi' leather loof, Cowe the ...
— Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories - A Book for Bairns and Big Folk • Robert Ford
... doup, An' a' unsicker girns the graith, For wae and wae the crowdies loup O'er jouk an' hallan, braw an' baith. Where ance the coggie hirpled fair, And blithesome poortith toomed the loof There's nae a burnie giglet rare But ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... your bree," she said. "There's a bonny lassie that has bricht een, and there's a wee man in a braw coat, and a big man in a pouthered wig, and there's the shadow of the wuddy,[10] joe, that lies braid across your path. Gie's your loof, hinny, and let Auld Merren spae ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Jenny by the Nease, Saying my dear Lovey canst thou loof me? My Father is Dead and has left me Land, Some fair ...
— Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 • Various
... maybes think mair o' the bonny norland quey than ye think o' the bit Gallowa' calf. But God speed ye, I say, for gin ye bringna back the wee lass that's heir to the braid lands o' Thrieve, it's an ill chance Ninian Halliburton has ever to fill his loof wi' the bonny gowden 'angels' that (next to high heeven) are a man's best freends in ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett |
