Here we have a witness-never fash whether material or not-a witness in this cause, kidnapped by that old, lawless, bandit crew of the Glengyle Macgregors, and sequestered for near upon a month in a bourock of old ruins on the Bass. ❋ Unknown (1893)
Macgregors, and sequestered for near upon a month in a bourock of old cold ruins on the Bass. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
Monkbarns, if ye howk up the bourock, as ye seem to have began, yell find, if ye hae not fund it already, a stane that ane o 'the mason-callants cut a ladle on to have a bourd at the bridegroom, and he put four letters on't, that's A.D.L.L. --- Aiken Drum's Lang ❋ Unknown (1845)
But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Prtorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words --- ` ` Prtorium here, Prtorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade. '' ❋ Unknown (1845)
` ` Who, I? '' said the mendicant --- ` ` Lord bless your honour, naebody sall ken a word about it frae me, mair than if the bit bourock had been there since Noah's flood. ❋ Unknown (1845)
` ` About this bit bourock, your honour, '' answered the undaunted Edie; ` ` I mind the bigging o't. '' ❋ Unknown (1845)
Now, if he has really imposed the bourock on ye for an ancient wark, it's my real opinion the bargain will never haud gude, if you would just bring down your heart to try it at the law, and say that he beguiled ye. '' ❋ Unknown (1845)
But then came in the story of my poor bairn, and my mother thought he wad be deaved wi 'it's skirling, and she pat it away in below the bit bourock of turf yonder, just to be out o' the gate; and I think she buried my best wits with it, for I have never been just mysell since. ❋ Unknown (1822)
The moment that Robin saw them, he kenned, by their movements, that they were craws o 'some ither warld than this; so he signed himself, and crap into the middle o' his bourock. ❋ James Hogg (1802)
"About this bit bourock, your honour," answered the undaunted Edie; "I mind the bigging o't." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Mair by token, Monkbarns, if ye howk up the bourock, as ye seem to have began, yell find, if ye hae not fund it already, a stane that ane o 'the mason-callants cut a ladle on to have a bourd at the bridegroom, and he put four letters on't, that's A. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
"Nae doubt -- nae doubt, if it were weel played; but yonder," he said, as if to change the discourse, "is Halbert Gray's lang hame, that ye were speering after, just the third bourock beyond the muckle through-stane that stands on sax legs yonder, abune some ane of the Ravenswoods; for there is mony of their kin and followers here, deil lift them! though it isna just their main burial-place." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Praetorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words -- "Praetorium here, Praetorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
“Nae doubt — nae doubt, if it were weel played; but yonder,” he said, as if to change the discourse, “is Halbert Gray’s lang hame, that ye were speering after, just the third bourock beyond the muckle through-stane that stands on sax legs yonder, abune some ane of the ❋ Unknown (2008)
But then came in the story of my poor bairn, and my mother thought he wad be deaved wi’ it’s skirling, and she pat it away in below the bit bourock of turf yonder, just to be out ❋ Unknown (2007)
a witness in this cause, kidnapped by that old, lawless, bandit crew of the Glengyle Macgregors, and sequestered for near upon a month in a bourock of old ruins on the Bass. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
"If [I see] [one more] Bourocker today I may [puke]." ❋ BROK (2004)
