How To Use Auld In A Sentence
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Even the normal Perigordine fare of duck la gras and truffles washed down with red wine and pastis has yielded in favour of Scottish food and drink in celebration of the Auld Alliance.
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On top of that, they could have a taller Olympic cauldron.
Times, Sunday Times
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is a piece of Scotland in the heart of the auld enemy, so it might be expected to maintain the traditional hostility towards the English and their team.
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It's a tradition to sing'Auld Lang Syne'on New Year's Eve.
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Ill eneugh to keep the doors open as it is, let be facing Whitsunday and Martinmas — an auld leather pock there is, Maister Francie, in ane of worthy Maister Bindloose the sheriff-clerk’s pigeon-holes, in his dowcot of a closet in the burgh; and therein is baith charter and sasine, and special service to boot; and that will be chapter and verse, speer when ye list.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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I will have scoured out of the country before he be three days aulder.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Would anybody have ever called Spaulding or Shepard that?
Oral History Interview with Conrad Odell Pearson, April 18, 1979. Interview H-0218. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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Perhaps his most interesting is Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), a psychopath who commits various gruesome murders and owns a freak show themed tourist attraction.
Five Horrifying Clowns | myFiveBest
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For auld lang syne, my dear... `If it were me,' he said as we crossed the park, `I'd be crossing continents; I'd leave no stone unturned.
RESCUING ROSE
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I 'm sartin it's fair play ye want; an' I canna for the life o 'me see a hair o' wrang i 'yer lordship's gaein' in a cogue, as auld
Malcolm
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Luther; "while others, it is added," abjurit and relapsit, baneist of auld, now comes pertlie [openly] without any dreidour, nocht allenarly in the far parts of the Realme, but als to the Court and presens of your
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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It was only when I was on the second sachet and gleefully exhorting the recalcitrant bubbling cauldron to cleanse thyself, that the Gamekeeper ran in gasping and flung all the windows open.
42 entries from November 2007
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I thoucht yer lordship wad like to see an auld stair I cam upo 'the ither day,' at gang's frae the wizard's chaumer.
Malcolm
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But we maun a 'live the day, and have our dinner; and there's Vich lan Vohr has packed his dorlach, and Mr. Waverley's wearied wi' majoring yonder afore the muckle pier-glass; and that grey auld stoor carle, the Baron o 'Bradwardine that shot young
Waverley
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I tell ya what, de next time yer comin inta town bring de auld bike wit ya and ya can chain it to de pole outside, ‘sniggered Jim backing out the door, deciding that it was time to beat a hasty retreat.’
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The auld boy maun have been dreaming.
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Ye're aye cute, dame," I cried, thrawing the bit gy abune, and in a gliffing, doun jumpit the chiel, and a braw chiel he was sure enough, siccan my auld e'en sall ne'er see again, wi 'his brent brow and buirdly bowk wrappit in a tartan plaid, wi' a Highland kilt.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
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The woman was a seething cauldron of grievances against the man for whom she had sacrificed almost two decades of her life.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- I'm sitten down here, after seven-and-forty miles 'ridin', e'en as forjesket and forniaw'd as a forfoughten cock, to gie ye some notion o 'my land lowper-like stravaguin sin the sorrowfu' hour that I sheuk hands and parted wi 'auld Reekie.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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I set and lit our fire, and filled our small cauldron with water.
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“Drive three inches of cauld airn into his brisket!” shouted a third.
Rob Roy
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They lose a 'sense o' modesty an 'decency, after a while, an' are no 'like women at a' when they grow aulder.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
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There was a rocking chair that sat next to a fireplace, which held a medium sized cooking cauldron that was spilling ashes onto the burgundy hearthrug.
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But the seething cauldron of resentment that has been uncovered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns round ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's nae tae be, Tammas, it's nae tae be.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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The crone’s cauldron is a deep part of the Halloween myth that represents the cosmic womb.
The Crone and the Cauldron « bindu wiles
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But my auld een's drawing thegither -- dinna hurry yoursell, my bonny man, tak mind about the putting out the candle, and there's a horn of ale, and a glass of clow-gillie-flower water; I dinna gie ilka body that; I keep it for a pain I hae whiles in my ain stamach, and it's better for your young blood than brandy.
Old Mortality, Complete
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D'ye mean to tell me that Mysie 'ill be dwanged trailin' throo a 'eternity wi' a bit bairnie aucht days auld, an 'it never gettin' even the lenth o 'bein' doakit, lat aleen growin 'up to be able to tak' care o'ts sel?
My Man Sandy
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A vedro [2 3/4 gallons] and a half to the cauldron!" whispered the ex-soldier with a computative grunt as he gained his feet.
Through Russia
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He's an auld horse that winna nicher when he sees corn.
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Are we going to be living in some small, dinky shack with no running water and a cast iron cauldron for cooking?
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Ye 'ill better clear yersel at ony rate, Hillocks, for some o' the neeburs threep (insist) 'at it wes you, and some that it wes yir freend, an' there's ithers declare ye ran in compt (company) like twa dogs worrying sheep; it wes a bonnie like pliskie (escapade) onywy, and hardly fit for an Auld Kirk elder" -- a sally much enjoyed by the audience, who knew that, after Whinnie, Hillocks was the doucest man in Drumtochty.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
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And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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“And what are you two auld boys blethering about now?”
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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Leevie was makin 'a gowk o' ye to gar ye hang oot signals for her auld jo.
Doom Castle
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Ye might be my gutcher (grandfather) auld Donal gae wa
Come Under My Plaidie
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot... `You don't think about her?
RESCUING ROSE
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Ratton — they tauld me ye were hanged, man; or did ye get out
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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The information on 'poetry' I have to advertize, is a bardic prose-poem attributed to Amergin and translated into English first, 1300 years after its composition by an anonymous bard, without title: 'the cauldron of poetry', so called because of the metaphorical conceit in the piece, of poetry being created in a person's three internal cauldrons: Warming, Motion & Wisdom.
Poetry: a beautiful renaissance
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“Our kail is like to be cauld eneugh too,” he reflected, as the chorus of “Cauld Kail in Aberdeen” again reached his ears.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Green-fingered gardeners are preparing to add a splash of colour to the Auld Grey Town this summer with their entries for the 2004 Kendal in Bloom competition.
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Plague on her, for an auld Highland witch and spaewife," said a farmer from the Carse of Stirling; "she'll cast some of her cantrips on the cattle.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
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Any parliament is always going to be a seething cauldron of ambition.
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The current executive and legislative branches are drowning in the former and the judicial branch, which is supposed to be non-partisan, is a cauldron of partisan politics.
Axelrod: I'm not thinking about Palin's next move
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At the center of La Rochefoucauld's masterpiece is the notion of amour-propre , best translated as self-regard.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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Stumpie's an awfu 'peppery budy, an' though the Smith leuch when he made his joke at the tailor's precentin ', Mertin got as raised as a wasp, and he yattered back -- "You'll maybe be better aff i' the ither place, wi 'your auld horse shune an' your smiddy reek, ye auld acowder ----
My Man Sandy
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Arms will be linked, kisses exchanged and a chorus of Auld Lang Syne belted out.
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“Weel, then, ye maun ken we’re starving, as I said before, and have been mair days than ane; and the Major has sworn that he expects relief daily, and that he will not gie ower the house to the enemy till we have eaten up his auld boots, — and they are unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forby being teugh in the upper-leather.
Old Mortality
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A later warrior grave contained a bronze cauldron and a set of iron weapons.
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Her birth country lay not far inland, though sheltered from northerly winds and easterly waters -- the Kazan, Cauldron, huge astrobleme on the continent Rodna, a bowl filled with woods, farmlands, rivers, at its middle Lake Stoyan and the capital Zorkagrad.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
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Just think o 'Sim gettin' the dirty gae-bye frae a glaikit lassie hauf his age; and no 'his equal in the three parishes, wi' a leg to tak 'the ee o' a hal dancin'-school, and auld Knapdale's money comin 'till him whenever Knapdale's gane, and I'm hearin' he's in the deid-thraws already.
Doom Castle
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Hoot toot, Mistress Findlay," interposed Malcolm, as his grandfather strode from the door; "ye maunna forget 'at he's auld an' blin '; an' a 'heelan' fowk's some kittle (touchy) about their legs.
Malcolm
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Let us cut up bushes and briers, pile them before the door and set fire to them, and smoke that auld devil's dam as if she were to be reested for bacon. ''
The Black Dwarf
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This steamy natural cauldron is a place where chemistry happens in the open air.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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My auld, ga'd gleyde o 'a meere has huch-yall'd up hill and down brae, in Scotland and England, as teugh and birnie as a vera devil wi' me.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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But he knows it will get VERY real when he steps into the cauldron of the first tee come Friday morning.
The Sun
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He believed that no ladies were to be of the party, and that the gentlemen were chiefly of the King's new friends among the Huguenots, such as Coligny, his son-in-law Teligny, Rochefoucauld, and the like, among whom the young gentleman could not fall into any very serious harm, and might very possibly be influenced against a Roman Catholic wife.
The Chaplet of Pearls
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He was an auld, doddering man, a maffling, feckless auld doit.
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Living in California, we know certainly that leaders are not lining up to take on the real issues that have turned this state from a beckoning eldorado into a bristling cauldron of hope.
Rick Jacobs: Courage for the New Year
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The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I answered obediently and went to the fire to stir the thick stew inside the cauldron.
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Rob for some auld ill-will that they hae at him and his sirname.
Rob Roy
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'Poor Sanny!' said Robert, 'it never cam' intil 's heid to sell her, nae mair nor gin she had been the auld wife 'at he ca'd her.'
Robert Falconer
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To daunton me, &c. He hirples twa fauld as he dow,
Song-To Daunton Me
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The canty auld folk crackin 'crouse, [cheerful, talking brightly]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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I then took some betony and cut it with my dagger and placed it in my cauldron.
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Their musty old home had been transformed into a cauldron of competing energies, which then spilled over into their lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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And they're so opposite, of course, some of them that as if their oppositeness and the conflict between them makes this cauldron a very turbulent cauldron, makes it bubble and seethe.
CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001
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But at threescore and upward, men's courage turns cauldrife; and they that canna win a living, must not endanger the small sustenance of their age.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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His wife Kerry's, on the other hand, was a cauldron of domestic violence and emotional instability.
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PPG (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) Industries acquired the vehicle refinish business of ICI and also the former Courtaulds aerospace and sealant business from Akzo Nobel.
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Well, yur hed mite asplode — iz cauld teh “splort.”
Teh modeling agency - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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But if you don't drill drain holes in the bottoms of these containers, you could use the cauldron and buckets as cachepots (French for ‘hide pot’) to hold plants already potted in well-draining containers.
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They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert’s house at Pace and
Redgauntlet
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And now he showed me pieces of armour, that is, a vizored headpiece or armet, with cuirass, backplates, pauldrons and vambraces, all very richly gilded, the which it seemed he had chosen for my defence.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance
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They will circumambulate the stadium once and then take the torches to the cauldron.
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Could the SNP conclude when it comes to insulation that 'many are cauld but few are frozen'?
The Green Moment
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His second most prized possession was a magic cauldron that could never be emptied.
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Oh, I do have this screencap from the Howard Ends skybox, grumpy Nareth getting a "time out" with only Sulk Bunny and Captain Spaulding for company.
"We are accidents, waiting to happen."
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With a sweeping gesture, she lowered the dipper into the steaming cauldron holding the noxious purple brew that was going to cure Alicia's headaches and Chino's gall-bladder problems.
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Watch out for a change in publication dates for Courtauld News.
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This current system is unworkable, impractical and damaging to the physical and economic health of our once lovely Auld Grey Town.
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She felt a spark of danger, yet sensed only the tiniest chill of fear as they passed one another: part dread, part a fris son of excitement she associated only with the pleasure of Christmas that was almost upon them: a touch of peace in the boiling cauldron.
Bottled Spider
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Black cats were everywhere and I also spotted a huge cut-out of a witch stirring her evil cauldron!
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Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The award goes to the Cranfield student presenting the best dissertation relevant to Courtaulds' activities.
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Donald an 'me was sittin' fon'lin 'her gowden curls an' biddin 'ane anither no' to greet -- for ae broken hairt can comfort anither broken hairt -- he slippit the token frae oot her puir cauld wee haun ', an' he read the writin 'that's on't oot lood:' This do in remembrance of Me, 'an' he says, 'I'll dae it in remembrance o' them baith, mither -- o '
St. Cuthbert's
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After Richard's powerful 15-minute pitch leading with the one simple word("Shoes!"), Alistair Spaulding greenlit the show immediately.
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Indeed, ye'll no hinder some to threap that it was nane o 'the auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the laird's room, but only that wanchancy creature, the major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the laird's whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the laird himsell, if no better.
Redgauntlet
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You put the whole concatenation into the largest cauldron you've got, stir well, dance three times moonwise around the nearest deposit of nickel-zinc and ... but enough secrets, lad.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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An 'yon donnert auld deevil ye ca' yer gran'father 'ill be fain eneuch to be drummer, I'll sweir.
Malcolm
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He was a gey (considerably) auld man than, but as straucht as an ellwand, and jist pooerfu 'beyon' belief.
Robert Falconer
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Antonia's creations had thoroughly intrigued me when I met she and her family at the Palm Sunday Crafts Fair the previous March; I eagerly looked forward to seeing the bubbly cauldron where she cast her magic spells and brought her bewitched creepy-crawlies to life.
Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
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In the kirks a certain skill in woodcarving was often evident, and in recognition of the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland, a blue fleur-de-lis carpet was usually a feature.
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One clip even features an actor dressed as a witch doctor dancing around a smoking cauldron.
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Episcopalians and Methodists, and fools and fiddlers, and Papists and pie-bakers, and doctors and drugsters; by the shop-folk, that sell trash and trumpery at three prices — and so up got the bonny new Well, and down fell the honest auld town of Saint Ronan’s, where blithe decent folk had been heartsome eneugh for mony a day before ony o’ them were born, or ony sic vapouring fancies kittled in their cracked brains.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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August 31, 2009 at 12:06 pm tnks tessm bie teh wai sweet dreams iz mi fav singing song frum a lubley ladi beyonce, she haz song cauld kitty cat must zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Honey, the lolcats - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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He spok of both of ye all night most beautiful, and how ye used to stravaig on the Saturday afternoons, and of AULD KELVINSIDE.
The Wrecker
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This was also the root of the English word "cauldron" and the French word chaudiere - and it is obviously a short hop from there to chowder.
Cook sister!
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Mair spier na, no fear na, Auld age ne'er mind a feg; The last o't, the warst o't.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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Margent; and for that the said Sir John Newton is yncertaine of any creaste which he ought to beare by his owne proper name, he therefore hath also required vs, the said kings and hereauldes of armes, to assigne and confirme vnto him and his posteritie for ever, the creaste of Sir Auncell Corney, knight, which Sir Auncell Corney, as it doth appere by divers ancient evidence and other monuments of the said Sir
Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850
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For auld lang syne, my dear... `If it were me,' he said as we crossed the park, `I'd be crossing continents; I'd leave no stone unturned.
RESCUING ROSE
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Callums frae first to last; I hae dung Greeshy till he couldna stand -- him that had to be twice fitted for his coffin; an 'Wull that was hangit at Dumfries for sheep-stealin'; an 'Meg that was servant till yersel -- aye, an' a bonny piece she was as ye ken yersel '; an' this auld donnert carle that, when he carries up the
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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By the grace o’ Mercy, the horse swarved round, and I fell aff at the tae side as the ball whistled by at the tither, and the fell auld lord took the Whig such a swauk wi’ his broadsword that he made twa pieces o’ his head, and down fell the lurdance wi’ a’ his bouk abune me.”
The Bride of Lammermoor
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I'm a gey auld-farrant-looking dear, I doubt," said Nanny, ruefully.
The Little Minister
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I can honk out a few simple tunes on my horribly out-of-tune one-row (usually brought out at Christmas to play auld lang syne).
Vivaldi - Performed on an Accordion » E-Mail
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They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert's house at
Redgauntlet
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Ta bag," he said confidentially, "she isn't a hundert years auld, but she's auld, and she was proke, and ta wint whustled when she plew, but she's chust mended, and to-morrow -- ah, to-morrow!
Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai
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And there was a witches' cauldron full of golden soup.
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Hauld, hauld, 'tis the gudeman his nainsell," shreighed Janet, when the stranger drapping the point o 'the sword, clingit till my hand, and while the scauding tear draps tricklit adoun his face prigged me to fend him.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
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My auld, ga'd gleyde o 'a meere has huch-yall'd up hill and down brae, in Scotland and England, as teugh and birnie as a vera devil wi' me.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Ye auld donnert deevil!" she cried, with an addition too coarse to be set down, and threw herself upon him.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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But as the controversy continues to mesmerize and roil the cyber miasma, I have come to another conclusion that I believe is worth tossing into the cauldron apologies for mixing my metaphors.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Tiger Mom Is A Scaredy Cat
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--- What is the tane but a waefu 'bunch o' cauldrife professors and ministers, that sate bien and warm when the persecuted remnant were warstling wi 'hunger, and cauld, and fear of death, and danger of fire and sword upon wet brae-sides, peat-haggs, and flow-mosses, and that now creep out of their holes, like bluebottle flees in a blink of sunshine, to take the pu'pits and places of better folk
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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` ` Hout, lad, '' said Edie, getting down in his room --- ` ` let me try my hand for an auld bedral; --- ye're gude seekers, but ill finders. ''
The Antiquary
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Some thought it was easier counting with the auld rough knight than the fair-spoken young ane — but mair of that anon.
Redgauntlet
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Bronze rapiers and gold torcs survive from c. 1000 BC, while from c. 700 BC there are trumpets and cauldrons in bronze, as well as many types of gold ornament.
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In addition to fragments of at least four tripod cauldrons, the tomb also yielded a number of marine shells and two possible animal bone fragments.
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As we counted down backwards in Chinese we then drew attention to ourselves by singing ‘Auld Aung Syne‘.
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Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin 'auld Provost Jervie's time -- and he had a quean of a servant lass that dressed it hersel', wi 'the doup o' a candle and a dredging box.
At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History
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And an unco fright ye gae me when ye cam ahint and took a grip o 'me," said Jenny, giving him a sly twitch with her finger and her thumb -- "if ye hadna been an auld acquaintance, ye daft gomeril" --
Old Mortality, Complete
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But the seething cauldron of resentment that has been uncovered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, yell no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o the Auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the Lairds room, but only that wanchancy creature, the Major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the Lairds whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the Laird himsell, if no better.
Wandering Willie’s Tale
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On an occasion after having stopped for a "nooning," there loomed up suddenly in the northwest a black, ominous cloud, revolving swiftly and threateningly, as might the vapors from some gigantic cauldron; variegated in black, blue and green, bespangled with red streaks of lightning.
Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method
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An under-cook was supervising the cleaning of the stove around the cauldron and the preparation of fresh ingredients to replace those lost.
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After getting up to ‘have a go at the auld dancing,’ he swung himself around so hard that his false teeth went skidding across the dance floor - much to the amusement of Gerry and all in attendance.
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All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Here's a bra 'din, indeed, about an auld wife gaun to the grave, a young limmer to the close-heads and causeway, and a sticket stibbler [A student of divinity who has not been able to complete his studies on theology.] to the sea instead of the gallows!'
Redgauntlet
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A unique aspect of this tomb was that it contained the largest group of fragmentary handmade tripod cauldrons in the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone.
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For the Foucauldians sexuality is made meaningful through the discourses which shape it.
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His declinature was taken so hotly by the King and Arran that all who were present felt he was as good as a dead man; but 'Mr. Andro, never jarging [9] nor daschit [10] a whit, with magnanimus courage, mightie force of sprit and fouthe [11] of evidence of reason and langage, plainly tauld the King and
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
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Shakspeare, Ray, &c., and also of the Record publications; and lastly, which we have just received from the worthy bibliopole of Auld Reekie,
Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849
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Higgins opened the scoring when he beat Auld with a shot from the left side with 3 seconds remaining in defenseman Ryan O'Byrne's delay of game penalty for putting the puck over the glass.
USATODAY.com
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A bandleader named Guy Lombardo helped make Auld Lang Syne a modern tradition.
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'But what for hearken to the havers o' a dottled auld wife? 'he said to himself, pondering as he walked home.
Robert Falconer
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But they made it a night to remember, with fireworks, a sound system belting out Auld Lang Syne, and revellers linking arms with police and dancing in the street.
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Nae man alive can cuitle up Donald better than mysell --- I hae bought wi 'them, sauld wi' them, eaten wi 'them, drucken wi' them '' ------
Rob Roy
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Aiblins folk'll ken their true freens there; an 'there'll be na mair luve coft and sauld for siller --
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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Katrine is a leddy born - there's nae aulder or prouder stock in the land - and ye're the oy o' the miller o' the Rood-foot, and ye seek to make her your marrow.
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“Stay there, and be hanged, then, for a donnard auld deevil!” said the other, and ran down the prison stair.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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The great auks, Purcell reports, were ‘hunted for their feathers… and to loosen their plumage the birds were boiled in large cauldrons over fires fed by oil from auks killed before them.’
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Inside was a fire with a huge iron cauldron on it.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[301] In 1827 Scott was one day heard saying, as he saw Peter guiding the plough on the haugh: -- "Egad, auld Pepe's whistling at his darg: if things get round with me, easy will be his cushion!
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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Kirchick "rebuts" the Senate Intelligence report by noting a prior Intelligence Committee report found no evidence that the administration attempted to coerce intelligence analysts to change their judgment, but this merely begs the question since, as Senator Feinstein noted in the report, the "cauldron boiling below the surface" was the question of whether information received from "the intelligence community, whether right or wrong, good or bad, were fairly represented to the Congress and to the American people.
Bennet Kelley: Lessons Not Learned: The Media Continues to be MIA on the Truth about Iraq War
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I tauld your honour I was fleyed wi 'a bogle that night, but ye wadna listen to me --- I aye thought there was witchcraft and deevilry amang the Papishers, but I ne'er saw't wi' bodily een till that awfu 'night.' '
Rob Roy
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When you finished selling your load at a shilling a bag, you could lie down and fall asleep in the dray and the auld horse would make his own way home.
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After filling the cauldron up about halfway, he looked in, swishing the water about, then picking out a few pieces of debris that floated into it.
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But he knows it will get VERY real when he steps into the cauldron of the first tee come Friday morning.
The Sun
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-- But the poor simple bairn himsell, that had nae mair knowledge of the wickedness of human nature than a calf has of a flesher's gully, he threepit to see the auld hardened bloodshedder, and trysted wi 'him to meet wi' some of the gang at an hour certain that same day, and awa he gaed to keep tryst, but since that hour naebody ever has set een on him.
St. Ronan's Well
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Reuben, '' said his wife, smiling at his surprise, ` ` till on my deathbed, or maybe on some family pinch; but it wad be better laid out on yon bonny grass-holms, than lying useless here in this auld pigg. ''
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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We were able to get two tickets under the Olympic cauldron, where the flame was burning brightly.
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He _has_ the second sicht, my lord, but ane 'at gangs a sicht farther nor my auld daddy's.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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Courtaulds' challenge is to tune into the demand and drive it forward fast enough to translate technological lead into sales success.
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By then at the end of his active career as a lover, intriguer at the court of the regency of Louis XIV, and soldier who had thrice chosen the wrong side in the civil wars known as the Fronde, La Rochefoucauld clearly exceeded all others at this game.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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She's probably got a hooked nose, a pointed hat, a large black cauldron, a broomstick and a black cat.
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Auld Lang Syne" is the masterpiece of Robert Burns, the famous Scottish peasant poet, with its sincerity and artlessness as well as a beautiful tune, and therefore has won worldwide popularity.
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Were you a twelve-month aulder, we would make a burgess of you, man.
Redgauntlet
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Siloam 's fa'en upo 'my heid: -- what does he, the first thing, but turn his ain auld freen's oot o' the sma beild they had!
The Marquis of Lossie
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You never heard sic a cratur for thae auld-farrant sayin's; an 'Mysie's no' far ahent.
My Man Sandy
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In rapid succession he won Auldearn, Alford, and Kilsyth, and occupied Edinburgh.
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The hand of six-year-old Mary was promised to the French dauphin, Francis, in 1548 in exchange for French protection of Scotland from the English as part of the Auld Alliance.
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Commons -- an 'he to be dead at last! the warld'll seem quite unco without his auld-farrant phizog on the streets.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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The night before the funeral, Dougal could keep his awn counsel nae langer; he came doun with his proud spirit, and fairly asked auld Hutcheon to sit in his room with him for an hour.
Redgauntlet
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Instantly, gray smoke erupted, flowing out of the cauldron, as if frozen in time.
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Most meals would have been some form of stew, soup or pottage cooked in a cauldron over the central hearth of the house.
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It is very true, said the blind man, that when I am tired of scraping thairm or singing ballants I whiles make a tale serve the turn among the country bodies; and I have some fearsome anes, that make the auld carlines shake on the settle, and the bits o bairns skirl on their minnies out frae their beds.
Wandering Willie’s Tale
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Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin auld Provost Jervie's time --- and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi 'the doup o' a candle and
The Antiquary
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Maister Tammy," I cried, "what for wad ye skail a dacent tinkler lad intil a cauld sea?
Greenmantle
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His days toiling in the fields were done, now he sat around with his peers playing cards, and talking about ‘the good auld days’.
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The distaff by Barbauld's account is not restricted to women, nor is it a degradation to be employed by men.
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Auld baudrons by the ingle sits, [Old pussy, fireside]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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We were almost entire strangers to each other; for, when I knew him at the house of my old master, it was not as a _master_, but simply as "Captain Auld," who had married old master's daughter.
My Bondage and My Freedom
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For auld lang s-y-y-y-n-e... `You only say that because your mother was a good person, but mine wasn't.
RESCUING ROSE
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President Bush says U.S. troops are making progress in Iraq, arguing that an early pullout would turn Iraq into what he calls a cauldron of chaos.
CNN Transcript May 1, 2007
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The carronade was a pot of a gun, not a long, elegant and accurate cannon, but a squat cauldron to be charged with powder and metal scraps that flayed out like buckshot.
Sharpe's Devil
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I'd known that auld lang syne meant something like "old time's sake" and that a right guid-willie waught was probably a decent measure of whisky, but I'd never stopped at fiere.
How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship | Jackie Kay
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` ` He has a look of auld Humphrey Ettercap, the tinkler, that perished in this very moss about five years syne, 'answered his superstitious companion; ` ` but Humphrey wasna that awfu big in the bouk.' '
The Black Dwarf
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Rusticus will point out to you "the auld-fashioned standin 'stane" -- on which he tells you that there are plain to be seen a cocked hat, a pair of spectacles, a comb, a looking-glass, a sow with a long snout, and a man driving a gig, -- Mr Urban will describe to you "a hieroglyphed monolith" in the terms following: --
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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It is true that Atkinson portrays an auld Edinburgh filtered through the works of Sir Walter Scott, with a dash of Dickens thrown in for good measure.
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One must be careful, however, not to read this remark as conceding defeat, for in the continuation of this reply to Arnauld and in the passage above, he identifies ideas with God's substance: ˜God's ideas of creatures are ¦ only His essence, insofar as it is participable or imperfectly imitable™ (Elucidation 10, OC 3: 149; LO
Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God
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As a last farewell and tribute to John, the local choir gave a rendition of Auld Lang Syne at the graveside.
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Curzon sat in his room, absently stirring a cauldron with a long metal spoon.
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I will not ask whether Reid was a 'natural realist' or a 'cosmothetic idealist,' or what Descartes or Arnauld thought about the question.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
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This steamy natural cauldron is a place where chemistry happens in the open air.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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This article is as unambiguous as it is vile what kind of person hopes that an entire region of the world turns into a "cauldron" -- but leave that to the side for now, because the focus here is Ledeen's lying, not the depraved nature of his views.
Archive 2006-11-01
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Deil a fear," said Meg; "it was auld Sim o 'Glower-ower-'em, the wizened auld hurcheon [hedgehog], that set a big thruch stane ower his first wife; and when he buried his second in the neist grave, he just turned the broad flat stone.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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He calls to the lords and asks them to add a tripod and a cauldron each to Odysseus' treasures.
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You could use one large plant in the cauldron or perhaps a group of smaller plants, including sedums, which would tumble over the sides.
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Eli Meir Kaplan for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Bitauld's pastry choices include, from left, raspberry tarts, mille-feuille and religieuse.
A Quick Lunch for Busy People
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What is the worth o 'anything to me, puir auld deevil, that ha' no half a dizen years to live at the furthest.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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The earthenware which appears together with the ashes concluded initially is cauldron which the life uses.
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As the exhibits regarding the origins of the "Auld Lang Syne" melody show, these kinds of strathspey dance tunes were in circulation long before this one first became associated with Burns's poem in Thomson's "Select Collection" —published in 1799, shortly after the poet's death.
Visiting an Auld Acquaintance
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Oh, I have heard of that smaik," said the Scotch merchant, interrupting him; "it is he whom your principal, like an obstinate auld fule, wad make
Rob Roy — Complete
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There can be no doubt that his chirography has been modified, like that of Paulding, by strong adventitious circumstances - for it appears to retain but few of his literary peculiarities.
