"Eild" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... then let us wield; For ance that five-an'-forty's speel'd, See, crazy, weary, joyless eild, Wi' wrinkl'd face, Comes hostin, hirplin owre the field, We' ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... said, "that my spirit is changing within me. I feel as if I had never known life until now. In vain I say unto myself that this must be a mere fantasy of mine; I, who am marked with the 'frost of eild,' who will soon be—let me see—seven-and-thirty years old. What think you ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... tho' wi' crazy eild I'm sair forfairn [old age, sorely worn-out] I'll be a brig when ye're a shapeless cairn! ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson
... Pegasus would break his tether, E'en at the shagging of a feather, And through ideas scour like drift, Streaking his wings up to the lift; Then, then my soul was in a low, That gart my members safely row; But eild and judgment 'gin to say, Let be your ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 362, Saturday, March 21, 1829 • Various |
