First, for auld langsyne; second, for the sake of the auld wife ayont the fire at ❋ Unknown (2005)
She followed the steps of the night, on its pathway of stars, far into the 'wee sma' hours ayont the twal ':' she was with ❋ Unknown (2004)
Could you love a sodger noo, could you lay doon ayont me ❋ Unknown (2000)
I could love a sodger noo, and I'll lay doon ayont ye ❋ Unknown (2000)
Yir mother's bearin 'her sorrow all alane in Ettrick and her laddie'll bear it ayont the ocean. ❋ Robert E. Knowles (N/A)
We've clomb the hill thegither, Donal ', mony a time sair an' weary, but oor hairts were stoot when the brae was stae; but noo I've reached the bonnie bit ayont the brae, an 'ye're a' 'at's wantin', Donal ', to mak' it fair beautiful! ❋ Robert E. Knowles (N/A)
"Dinna greet for me," said he in a calm and hopeful voice, "I ha'e already leeved ayont the period allotted to the life o 'man; I ha'e striven in my ain imperfect way to do my duty in this life, an' I am thankfu 'that I am able to say that I dinna fear death; and I feel that when I dee I shall gang hame to the house o' a mercifu 'Father." ❋ Harriet S. Caswell (N/A)
'It's gettin' on intil the "wee sma 'hours ayont the twal,"'he added; ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)
Second, for the sake of the auld wife ayont the fire at ❋ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (N/A)
After that the time flies in a paradise of reminiscences, till about 4 A.M. or some such "wee, short hour ayont the Twal '," if one may quote BURNS without being insulted by all the numerous and capable wits of ❋ Various (N/A)
BONNIE PEGGIE, O! Gang wi 'me to yonder howe, bonnie Peggie, O! Down ayont the gowan knowe, bonnie Peggie, O! When the siller burn rins clear, ❋ Various (N/A)
We are not told that they are Scotch, endowed though they undoubtedly are with some of the canny and thrifty characteristics of the dwellers ayont the Tweed. ❋ Various (N/A)
The hour was one of the short ones ayont the twal, and sleep reigned everywhere except in the daily-newspaper-offices and in the most fashionable of the grog-shops. ❋ Various (N/A)
And laddie, I am askin 'God to keep me pure, for my love will hae its bloom some day far ayont us, like the bonny heather when the winter's bye. ❋ Robert E. Knowles (N/A)
Kentuckians, who had come, some to back me and some to watch me, I did not quit their agreeable society until the "wee short hours ayont the twal." ❋ Unknown (1919)
A big, stiff-tongued Scotsman from "ayont the Tweed" gave it as his opinion that if the devil had all the estates rightly his, he would possess most of the earth. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)
What better prospect can his windows command than the valley of the Thames from Richmond Hill, the view Argyll showed Jeanie Deans, which drew from her the admission “it was braw rich feeding for the cows,” though she herself would as soon have been looking at “the craigs of Arthur's Seat and the sea coming ayont them, as at a 'that muckle trees.” ❋ Ed (1910)
Some wee short hour ayont the twal, [beyond, twelve] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)
Lee, and far ayont I saw the big blue hills o 'England shine bricht and clear. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
Within the living room were gathered the household treasures, the Lares and Penates of the little stone rose-covered cottage "at hame awa 'ayont the sea." ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)
