sporran

How To Use sporran In A Sentence

• Passing each one, he fingered their kilts and sporrans until he reached Sergeant Thomas Campbell and grew more inquisitive.
• Willie McSporran is chairman of the community council, although he is at pains to point out that this does not make his opinion more important than anyone else's.
• Mr Dunglass headed towards it now, groping in his sporran for a large iron key. SANDS OF TIME
• The enthusiasts turn up in kilts and sporrans.
• The shop window display of kilts, sporrans and skean-dhu daggers proclaimed that here was a York shop for York people.
• Clothing was generally confined to a kind of sporran, elaborately patterned with symbols, to leave glands and mahogany fur available for signals. The Earth Book of Stormgate
• Now Shanet wad ill like to live in a place where polish, and sheriffs, and bailiffs, and sie thieves and trash of the world, could tak puir shentlemen by the throat, just because they wanted a wheen dollars in the sporran. Chronicles of the Canongate
• Farmer Peter MacSporran has proved more resilient even than the crops he has managed to grow under the blazing African sun.
• That "sporran" was really a kind of movable curtain or screen; and beneath it, Bowman was quite sure, would be the mouth, handily placed at the entrance to the stomach. Tin
• A stark-naked savage this, and devoid of all adornment excepting a waist-belt of plaited grass and a "sporran" of similar material. Spinifex and Sand