"Toon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Toon o' Ayr, Portpatrick to the Cruives o' Cree; Nae man need hope to bide safe there, Unless ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett
... comes oot frae toon," resumed Mr. MacAllister slyly. "Mebby ye'd hae mair influence ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith
... cap'n. 'Best look at a bull ov-ah a fence,' as they say in the Canny Toon. Eh, but I'll have a fine tale to tell when next I meet my butties on the Quay-side. Did ye ev-ah see such faces as yon, all daubed wi' black ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... into race- hatred. He discovered that one English boy, when faced by a throng of young Scots patriots, had best be silent as to the virtues of his own race. He joined in and enjoyed the fights between the "Auld and the New Toon," and incidentally acquired a Scots accent that somewhat alarmed his loyal father, who had named him after the Hanoverian Georges. Proving himself a good fighter, he earned the praise of his Scots acquaintances, and a general ...
— The Life of George Borrow • Herbert Jenkins
... gang to the infairmary. It's juist for puir toon bodies that are aye ailin' an' deein'." Fright and resentment lent the silent old man an astonishing eloquence for the moment. "Ye wadna gang to the infairmary yer ainsel', ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson
... thought o' seein ye enow?" said she, in a quick gabbling voice. "What brought you to the toon? Are ye come to spend our honest faither's siller ere he's weel cauld ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier |
