"Barm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... auld wives' barrels, Ochon the day! That clarty barm should stain my laurels: But—what'll ye say? These movin' things ca'd wives an' weans, Wad move the very ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... the kitchen-table, patting up another barm-cake. She had a hand even lighter than Dinah's with flour and pastry. . . . The two captains had moved on to the gate of Home Parc, and she could still espy them past the edge of the window. She saw Captain Hunken draw his hand horizontally with ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... next rush I shall send your whole squad across. Forward now to the line of that row of apple trees ahead." And at Barm's "Follow me!" we slipped ahead not merely to the line of three old trees, but also to the position of the waiting motor, which was just abreast of us. While the rest of the company slipped forward to our line, I took a satisfying look at the girls. Frances saw me, and we smiled. ...
— At Plattsburg • Allen French
... much enmity and, though rains be moderate, rotting of some of the green crops; also that there will be sore mortality among cattle and young children and much fighting by sea; that wheat will be dear from Barmdah to Misra[FN425] and other grains cheap; thunder and lightning will abound and honey will be dear, palm- trees will thrive and bear abundantly and flax and cotton will be plentiful, while radishes and onions will be dear; but Allah is All-knowing!" Q "What if it fall on Fifth Day?" "That is ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton |
