"Bannock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dull people, incapable of comprehending the Scottish tongue. Their history is so intimately connected with that of Scotland, that we must refer our readers to that heading. Their literature is principally the work of venal Scots.' - Stevenson's HANDY CYCLOPAEDIA. Glescow: Blaikie & Bannock. ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... return. There was no tea to be found in the cupboard and the only particle of food was a piece of oaten bannock. There were a few raw potatoes, however, and Thora put some of these in the fire ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton
... had been side-stepped, and that the Nez Perces were beyond his lines. With almost six hundred men, two field-pieces and a Gatling gun he followed at best speed. The "treaty" or friendly Pierced Noses aided him; so did the Bannock Indians. ...
— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin
... it up, though his heart set up a furious beating at the bare idea of such a trip. "Can you bake bannock?" ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... myself from thee." replied Abu al- Hasan, "O my guest, did I not say to thee, 'Far be it, alas! that what is past should again come to pass? For indeed I will never again foregather with any!'" then the Caliph rose and the host set before him a dish of roast goose and a bannock of first- bread[FN16] and sitting down, fell to cutting off morsels and morselling the Caliph therewith. They gave not over eating till they were filled, when Abu al-Hasan brought basin and ewer and potash[FN17] and they washed their hands. Then he lighted three ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... like that, and I was bidden to rest in a Highland shieling, squat of form, thatched with rushes, floored with earth, and eat a bannock and drink a bowl of goat's milk, while my message went forward and an answer returned. Perhaps two hours passed, and I slept a little, for I was tired, before that answer did arrive by ...
— The Black Colonel • James Milne
... to you! For Scotland, I mingled in bustle and strife; For myself, I seek peace and an innocent life: I 'll haste to the Highlands, and visit each scene, With Maggie, my love, in her rockley o' green; On the banks of Glenary what pleasure I 'll feel, While she shares my bannock o' ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various |
