"Gowd" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there for honest poverty That hangs his head, and a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that; For a' that and a' that; Our toils obscure and a' that; The rank is but the guinea-stamp, The man's the gowd ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... had I wist before I kist, That love had been sae hard to win; I'd lockt my heart in case of gowd, And pinn'd it with a siller pin. And oh! if my poor babe were born, And set upon the nurse's knee, And I mysel in the cold grave! Since my true-love 's ...
— Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution • William Hazlitt
... sairved their king, Were they laid aside their ain kirk yett, i' the flower o' the ling. But whaur the road is twistin' through yon streets o' care an' sin, My third braw son toils nicht and day for the gowd he fain would win, Whaur ilka man grapes i' the dark to get his neebour's share, An' it's lang, lang strivin' ...
— Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus • Violet Jacob
... was again tempted to put in his oar; for where cash was concerned he did not willingly remain silent. 'Perhaps he had better carry the gowd to Miss Mac-Ivor, in case of mortality or accidents of war. It might tak the form of a mortis causa donation in the young leddie's favour, and—wad cost but the scrape of a ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... my wants shall be very few; and would you please to give me the gold chain, which the Margrave gave to my father after the battle of Lutzen"—"Mercy on us! the gowd chain?" ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... laughin' ee, Thou shookest even Grief wi' glee, Yet had nae niggart sympathy Where Sorrow bowed, But gavest a' thy tears as free As a' thy gowd. ...
— Afterwhiles • James Whitcomb Riley
... Edinburgh given to him, and naething will do but Glenormiston must show him to a company o' grand folk at his bit country place. He's sending in a cart by a groom, and I'm to tak' Bobby out and fetch him hame after a braw dinner on gowd plate. The bairns meant weel, but they could no' give Bobby a washing fit for a veesit with the nobeelity. I had to tak' him to a barber ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson
... forbid you, maidens a', That wear gowd on your hair, To come or gae by Carterhaugh, For young Tam Lin ...
— A Collection of Ballads • Andrew Lang
... by no means,' said Peter Peebles, 'do any substantial harm to the poor lad Fairford, who has had mony a gowd guinea of mine, as weel as his father before him; but I wad hae him brought back to the minding of my business and his ain; and maybe I wadna insist further in my action of damages against him, than for refunding the fees, and for some annual rent on the principal sum due frae the ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... 'em," Betty murmured in my ear. "There's pounds and pounds' worth lies there. He give orders accordingly. There warn't to be a flower 'at warn't worth its weight in gowd a'most. Mr. Reginald ...
— A Flat Iron for a Farthing - or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... wist, before I kist, That love had been sae ill to win, I had lockt my heart in a case of gowd And pinn'd it wi' a siller pin. And O! if my young babe were born, And set upon the nurse's knee, And I mysell were dead and gane, And the green ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... Muir, lapsing into the broad Scotch he was so fond of using when enjoying himself, "ye'll see the sicht o' yer life the day. Ye'll get that'll be o' mair use till ye than a' the gowd ...
— Alaska Days with John Muir • Samual Hall Young
... ye, the miners wouldna care to let me get a glint o' the gowd. I only had a look at the hobgoblin, who they have set, I guess, to watch ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... Of the tenantless hearth in the home of the Gael. There's a ship on the sea, and her white sails she's spreadin', A' ready to speed to a far distant shore; She may come hame again wi' the yellow gowd laden, But the sons of Glendarra ...
— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean |
