“Oh, weel eneugh, weel eneugh — sometimes he will fling in a lang word or a bit of learning that our farmers and bannet lairds canna sae weel follow — But what of that, as I am aye telling them? — them that pay stipend get aye the mair for their siller.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
Maybe ye think the puir lassie has a bee in her bannet; but ye ken yoursell if naebody but wise folk were to marry, the warld wad be ill peopled. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The way to catch a bird is no to fling your bannet at her. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Det mest konstruktive som kom ut av dagens telefonselgersamtale, var når jeg mistet beherskelsen og bannet over telefonselgerne jeg ikke blir kvitt. ❋ Torill (2004)
Thirdly, Nosey, wi 'his kilt, and bannet, and red coat, was, to a' intents and purposes, as like a human creatur as a monkey could weel be. ❋ Various (N/A)
Odds, man, I dressed him up like a Heelandman, and put a kilt upon him, and a lang-tailed red coat, and a blue bannet, which for security's sake I tied, woman-like, below his chin wi 'twa bits of yellow ribbon. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was neither the ane nor the ither, but a strong middle-aged, red-faced Heelandman, wi 'specks on, and wi' a kilt and a bannet, by a 'the world like my monkey's. ❋ Various (N/A)
Isobel Rutherford said that 'Sathan was in the likness of a man with gray cloathes and ane blue bannet, having ane beard'; Bessie Henderson, 'the ❋ Margaret Alice Murray (1913)
Let every head wear it's ane bannet, and the distractions o 'the ❋ Unknown (1887)
The lad was scaret at that, as weel he micht, an 'takin' aff 's bannet, he lowtit laich, an 'left her. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
But this didna shuit my leddy; she wasna to be left afore she said gang! sae she cried him back, an 'he cam, bannet in han'; an 'she leuch, an' made as gien she had been but tryin 'the smeddum o' 'im, an' thoucht him a true k-nicht. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
And he squeezed the blue bannet his twa hands between; ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
Put your hand twice to your bannet for ance to your pouch. ❋ Alexander Hislop (1836)
Nae faut that the cat has a clean band, she sets a bannet sae weel. ❋ Alexander Hislop (1836)
I recollect, as well as yesterday, that, on the Sundays, he wore a braid bannet with a red worsted cherry on the top of it; and had a single-breasted coat, square in the tails, of light Gilmerton blue, with plaited white buttons, bigger than crown-pieces. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
I recollect, as well as yesterday, that, on the Sundays, he wore a braid bannet with a red worsted cherry on the top of it; and had a single-breasted coat, square in the tails, of light Gilmerton blue, with plaited white buttons, bigger than crown pieces. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
"Gin the bannet fits ony body's head, they're unco welcome to it, sir, for me." ❋ James Hogg (1802)
It will keek out frae aneath the parson's gown, the lawyer's wig, and the Cameronian's blue bannet; but still there is a gouden rule whereby to detect it, an 'that never, never fails.' ❋ James Hogg (1802)
