"Widdy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the dawn av day; His bride was a stout owld widdy; She owned a horse, an' she owned a shay, An' her ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... thieves an' hussies!' she cried, 'thieves an' hussies! Gimme me goats or I'll have the law on you all—you low, mean stealers an' robbers, ye! Who stole the goats? Who came by night an' robbed a decent widdy woman of her beautiful goats? Who? Who? Who? Say you didn't, someone! Gi' me the lie, you ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... "'The widdy at Windsor' 's got another pretty!" he taunted. Hate flared suddenly from his deep-set eyes; he could not have analyzed its cause. "Jes' cut loose from home an' mammy," he continued, intemperately. "Perhaps he's ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... God that ever I chaip, Nor ane stark widdy gar me gaip, But I in hell for geir wald be. The Devil said, 'Welcome in a raip: Renounce thy God, and ...
— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith
... me entirely. Wasn't it hijjus of her? There may have been raysons satisfyin' to her own mind, but she nivver convinced me that it was Christian conduct on her part. So I wint with the Rile Irish, and fought fer the Widdy. So what with likin' the stir an' at the same time the safety an' comfort o' the wars, an' what with now an' thin a flirtashun in wan colour or another o' the human rainbow, with a bit of sport an' ridin' enough to kape me waist, I've been in the Rile Irish ivver since—whin not ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough |
