"Bairn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and said no more; for it is a characteristic of the awfu' bairn to be mute where fluency is required, ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... a motherless bairn who would like you to be nursey to her," said Annie, seating herself on a low hassock at the old woman's feet and ...
— Red Rose and Tiger Lily - or, In a Wider World • L. T. Meade
... Beal, to bellow.—Th' bairn be{a}led oot that bad, I was cl{e}an scar'd, but it was at noht bud a battle-twig 'at hed crohl{e}d up'n hisairm. ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... the baby and Polly, with the gentlemen of the party, embarked on board the Stella, which was to convey them to Oban. The men waved their bonnets, and uttered a prayer in Gaelic that the laird and his good wife and the "bairn" might be brought ...
— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston
... leal and true, Jean, Your task's ended noo, Jean, And I'll welcome you To the land o' the leal. Our bonnie bairn's there, Jean, She was baith guid and fair, Jean; O we grudged her right sair To ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
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