"Sneck" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of excise. He went to bed about ten o'clock, and about an hour and a-half thereafter, he was waked out of sleep by a noise and some chapping at the door of the room where he lay—which door he had secured before he went to bed by screwing down the sneck of the door—which noise the deponent at first imagined was occasioned by some drunken people in the house; but afterwards, upon the strokes on the door being repeated with violence, the deponent jumped out of his bed, and heard the ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton
... grandson leaving Montrose. Skinner, Rev. John, passing an Anti-burgher chapel. Sleeping in church. Sleeping in church, and snuffing. Slockin'd, never, apology for drinking. Smith, Adam, marked as most eccentric. Smith, Sydney, opinion of Scottish wit. Smuggler, case of one in church. 'Sneck the door.' Snuff-box handed round in churches. Snuff, grand accommodation for. Snuff, pu'pit soopit for. Snuff put into the sermon. Snuff-taking. Soldier, an old, of the 42d, cautious about the name of Graham. 'Some fowk like parritch, ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... wud tak nor yer ain, Though ye hae o' notes a feck, To mak the auld Barebanes there sae fain As to lift the muckle sneck! ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... haunch to heel, seven round the waist. I give your honour leave to hang Shemus, if there's a pair of sheers in the Highlands that has a baulder sneck than her's ain at the cumadh an ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... one dark night in winter, when she was sitting in the chiollagh alone, and the wind was loud in the trees, and the doctor upstairs was calling on her to come to bed ("you're wearing yourself away, woman"), she heard a sneck of the garden gate and a step on the gravel path, and it was old Tommy the Mate, who without waiting for her to open the door let a great yell out of him through the window that a "talegraf" had come to say her boy ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... fella ratepeyers," says Bandy again. "See gin that door's on the sneck, Sandy, an' dinna lat the ...
— My Man Sandy • J. B. Salmond
... Act ii. Scene 3., occur the words "Sneck up," in C. Knight's edition, or "Snick up," Mr. Collier's edition. These words appear most unaccountably to have puzzled the commentators. Sir Toby Belch uses them in reply to ...
— Notes & Queries No. 29, Saturday, May 18, 1850 • Various |
