"Wae" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... yersel', my leddy. Ye're ower weel made to bland (spoil). But wae's me for the goon or (before) it had been an hoor i' the boat the day!—no to mention the fish comin' walopin' ower the gunnel ane efter the ither. But 'deed I ...
— Malcolm • George MacDonald
... the tower to the horizon, far as our eyes can reach, and far'er, was for eight centuries the land of the Lairds of Lone. And noo! a' hae gane frae them, and they hae gane frae us, and na mon kens where they bide or how they fare. Wae's me!" ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... ha' ye learnit that deil's lee, Johnnie? Ye were no o' that mind five years agone, lad. Ha' ye been to Exeter Hall the while? A's fair in the cause o' Mammon; in the cause o' cheap bread, that means cheap wages; but in the cause o' God—wae's me, that ever I suld see this day ower again! ower again! Like the dog to his vomit—just as it was ten, twenty, fifty year agone. I'll just ha' a petition a' alane to mysel—I, an' a twa or ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... Glossin! that I have carried in my creels a hundred times, for his mother wasna muckle better than mysell—he to presume to buy the barony of Ellangowan! Gude be wi' us; it is an awfu' warld! I wished him ill; but no sic a downfa' as a' that neither. Wae's me! wae's me to think o't!' She remained a moment silent but still opposing with her hand the farmer's retreat, who betwixt every question was about to turn his back, but good-humouredly stopped on observing the deep interest his ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... young Markis o' Arondelle; wae worth the day he went awa'!" said the housekeeper, wiping ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... doup, An' a' unsicker girns the graith, For wae and wae! the crowdies loup O'er jouk an' hallan, braw an' baith Where ance the coggie hirpled fair, And blithesome poortith toomed the loof, There's nae a burnie giglet rare But ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... the better for 't i' the en'," she said, with a smile of the deepest sympathy, "though, bein' my ain, I canna help bein' wae for 'im. But the Lord was i' the airthquak, an' the fire, an' the win' that rave the rocks, though the prophet couldna see 'im. Donal 'ill come oot o' this wi' mair room in's hert ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald
... frae me that feather-bed! "Mak me a bed o' strae! "I wish I had na lived this day, "To mak my heart sae wae. ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott |
