"Clarty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... earnings were devoted to the dream of a feudal house which should endure through the centuries and look back to Sir Walter as its noble founder. While living modestly on his income at Ashestiel he had used the earnings of his poems to buy a rough farm at Clarty Hole, on the Tweed, and had changed its unromantic name to Abbotsford. More land was rapidly added and "improved" to make a lordly estate; then came the building of a castle, where Scott entertained lavishly, as lavishly as any laird or chieftain of the olden time, offering to ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long
... wives' barrels, Och—hon! the day! That clarty barm should stain my laurels; But—what'll ye say! These movin' things ca'd wives and weans Wad move the very hearts ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... 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 hearts ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns |
