"Stane" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... upon a stane, Binnorie, O Binnorie! The eldest came and pushed her in, By the ...
— Ballads of Romance and Chivalry - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series • Frank Sidgwick
... the very branches to put my hand on," says he, "and where every stane is, for many's the night I ran the cutter for the auld wives." We were half-way up before ...
— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars
... a week but only four, When, mournfu' as I sat on the stane at the door, I saw my Jamie's ghaist—I couldna think it he, Till he said, "I'm come hame, love, for ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... worm of corruption. Wherefore labour as one who knoweth not when his master calleth. And if it be my lot to return to this village after ye are gane hame to your ain place, these auld withered hands will frame a stane of memorial, that your name may not ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... believe that it has less than usual of the spirit of the poet, but it has all the spirit that was required; the toil of the week has ceased, the labourer has returned to his well-ordered home—his "cozie ingle and his clean hearth-stane,"—and with his wife and children beside him, turns his thoughts to the praise of that God to whom he owes all: this he performs with a reverence and an awe, at once natural, national, and poetic. "The Mouse" is a brief and happy and very moving poem: happy, for it delineates, ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... wull,' said the creditor,—they were Scotch, ye know, and spoke in deealect. So the gypsy led the way to the house which he had inhabited, a cottage which belonged to the man himself to whom he owed the money. And there he lifted up the hearthstone; the hard-stane they call it in Scotland, and it is called so in the prophecy of Thomas of Ercildowne. And under the hard-stane there was an iron pot. It was full of gold, and out of that gold the gypsy carle paid his creditor. Ye wonder how ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland
... Nine-stane Rig," cried a man; "there is a burn[25] runs past the bottom of it, and we will ...
— Tales From Scottish Ballads • Elizabeth W. Grierson |
