"Blate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... frae me? Certes, ye're no blate. They cam' frae far an' near to get a word wi' me. Na, there was nae rinnin' frae a bonny lass in thae days. Weel, there was three o' them; an' they cam' ower the hill to see the lasses, graund in their reed breeks slashed wi' yellow. An' what for ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... fush at ony gait, She's roarin' reid in wrathfu' spate; Maist like yer kimmer when ye're late Frae Girvan Fair! Forbye to speer for leave I'm blate For fushin' there! ...
— Ban and Arriere Ban • Andrew Lang
... in the latter half of 1771. Burns was then fifteen years of age, 'beardless, young, and blate,' but already, as he wrote to ...
— The Balladists - Famous Scots Series • John Geddie |
