Abbey — ye wadna hae me tell the gentleman a lee? and ye ken weel eneugh there is naebody in the town can say a reasonable word about it, be it no yoursell, except the bedral, and he is as fou as a piper by this time. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I wad gar the bedral eat the bell-rope, if he took ony sic freedom. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Like a wrinkled and bearded saint blessing some worshipping bedral. ❋ Kate Seymour MacLean (N/A)
Sunday coat, he was half led, half dragged down the steps by the bedral, shrunken together like one caught in a shameful deed, and with the ghastly look of him who has but just revived from the faint supervening on the agonies of the rack. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Winnet, the bedral, and howkit mair graves than ane in my day; but I left him in winter, for it was unco cald wark; and then it cam a green Yule, and the folk died thick and fast --- for ye ken a green Yule makes a fat kirkyard; and I never dowed to bide a hard turn o 'wark in my life --- sae aff I gaed, and left ❋ Unknown (1845)
` ` Hout, lad, '' said Edie, getting down in his room --- ` ` let me try my hand for an auld bedral; --- ye're gude seekers, but ill finders. '' ❋ Unknown (1845)
"Ance I wrought a simmer wi 'auld Will Winnet, the bedral, and howkit mair graves than ane in my day; but I left him in winter, for it was unco cauld wark; and then it cam a green Yule, and the folk died thick and fast." ❋ Alexander Hislop (1836)
--- I wad gar the bedral eat the bell-rope, if he took ony sic freedom. ❋ Unknown (1822)
"Hout, lad," said Edie, getting down in his room -- "let me try my hand for an auld bedral; -- ye're gude seekers, but ill finders." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
-- I wad gar the bedral eat the bell-rope, if he took ony sic freedom. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
I’ll hae her before presbytery and synod: I’m half a minister mysell, now that I’m a bedral in an inhabited parish.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Servitor, say ye?” replied the sexton, “and so I was; but it was to blaw folk to their warm dinner, or at the warst to a decent kirkyard, and no to skirl them awa’ to a bluidy braeside, where there was deil a bedral but the hooded craw. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Maybe you are right,” said the old woman, with a ghastly laugh; “carles and carlines agree weel with funeral vaults and charnel-houses, and when an auld bedral dwells near the dead, he is living, ye ken, among his customers — Halloo! ❋ Unknown (2008)
If the bedral hadna gien me a drap of usquebaugh, I might e’en hae died of your leddyship’s liquor, for” — — ❋ Unknown (2008)
"It's travell'd earth that," said Edie, "it howks gae eithly -- I ken it weel, for ance I wrought a simmer wi 'auld Will Winnet, the bedral, and howkit mair graves than ane in my day; but I left him in winter, for it was unco cald wark; and then it cam a green Yule, and the folk died thick and fast -- for ye ken a green Yule makes a fat kirkyard; and I never dowed to bide a hard turn o' wark in my life -- sae aff I gaed, and left Will to delve his last dwellings by himsell for Edie." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
If the bedral hadna gien me a drap of usquebaugh, I might e'en hae died of your leddyship's liquor, for "---- ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
"Servitor, say ye?" replied the sexton, "and so I was; but it was to blaw folk to their warm dinner, or at the warst to a decent kirkyard, and no to skirl them awa 'to a bluidy braeside, where there was deil a bedral but the hooded craw. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
I'll hae her before presbytery and synod: I'm half a minister mysell, now that I'm a bedral in an inhabited parish. " ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
