When I came here first frae our ain country, where the men are as rude as the weather, by my conscience, England was a bieldy bit; one would have thought the king had little to do but to walk by quiet waters, per aquam refectionis. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I recovered some where they had halted in bieldy places; others of them went further, and fell into other hands, and particularly into those of a neighbour, who, a short while previously, had played an unmanly part relating to a sheep and the march which ran between us. ❋ Various (N/A)
Even the grass nodding in the wind lent a thin voice to the chorus, a voice such as only the sharp and sea-trained ear may comprehend, that beasts hear long before the wind itself is apparent, so that they remove themselves to the bieldy sides of the hills before tumult breaks. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
It was now abute the gloaming when my ain same Janet (heav'n sain her saul) was sitting sae bieldy in a bit neuk ayant the ingle, while the winsome weans gathering around their minnie were listing till some auld spae wife's tale o 'ghaists and worriecows; when on a sudden some ane tirled at the door pin. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was a great howff, o 'Mr. Soulis's onyway; there he would sit an' consider his sermons; and inded it's a bieldy bit. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)
The old Cameronian kirk sits on a hill, and is surrounded by trees, a place both bieldy and heartsome. ❋ Unknown (1887)
It was a great howff, o 'Mr. Soulis's onyway; there he would sit an' consider his sermons 'and inded it's a bieldy bit. ❋ Various (1878)
--- I can tell you a story o 'Davie, wi' his Honour's leave: His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times --- the mair's the pity --- he lies a 'day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o ' ❋ Unknown (1877)
It was a great howff o 'Mr. Soulis's, onyway; there he would sit an' consider his sermons; and indeed it's a bieldy bit. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
'O let me lie down upon the bieldy side,' he cried; 'O dinna take me down!' ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
England was a bieldy bit; one would have thought the king had little to do but to walk by quiet waters, per aquam refectionis. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times -- the mair's the pity -- he lies a 'day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o 'Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
-- I can tell you a story o 'Davie, wi' his Honour's leave: His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times -- the mair's the pity -- he lies a 'day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it 's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o ' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Then it was that they were wont to come over our seven hills and seven waters to help themselves to our cattle when the same were at their fattest and best It would be a skurry of bare knees down pass and brae, a ring of the robbers round the herd sheltering on the bieldy side of the hill or in the hollows among the ripe grass, a brisk change of shot and blow if alarm rose, and then hie! over the moor by Macfarlane's lantern. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times -- the mair's the pity -- he lies a 'day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o 'Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' a kemple o 'strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
