Breid

'I think he means deid as in broon breid,' Parlabane mused. ❋ Shelagh Power-Chopra (2010)

| Reply | Permalink ok i'll bite. what is PUMA? thank you. breid ❋ Unknown (2009)

With 1-3 cf. MacLennan SNR (1909), 50: "Ride horsie, ride, ride horsie, ride, Ride awa 'to Aiberdeen, and buy white breid." ❋ Unknown (1976)

"Nae farer nor the len'th o 'my nose, an' the breid o 'my twa een," was the scornful answer. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

And gien ever the minister should again preach thy word, may it be wi 'the better comprehension, and the mair fervour; and to that en' gie him to un'erstan 'the hicht and deepth and breid and len'th o' thy forgivin love. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

The cobbler said a little prayer, and then they began to eat -- first of oat-cakes, baked by the old woman, then of loaf-breid, as they called it. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

But as he lay and devoured the new 'white breid,' his satisfaction -- the bare delight of his animal existence -- reached a pitch such as even this imagination, stinted with poverty, and frost-bitten with maternal oppression, had never conceived possible. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

An 'fess a loaf o' white breid; we canna bide for the parritch. ' ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Ye see, I wasna that sharp-set the day, sae I had jist a mou'fu 'o' breid and cheese. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

"Sandy Forbes gart her gang an 'fess a loaf o' white breid." ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Then he sat down and began to help himself to the cakes (oat-cake), at which Robert wondered, seeing there was 'white breid' on the table. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

"Weel!" exclaimed the farmer, "it jist blecks me to ken hoo there can be ony trowth i 'the Bible, whan a man like that comes sae near to beggin' his breid!" ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

She maun win her ain breid; an 'gien she didna that, she wad be but the mair ta'en up wi' sic nonsense as the likes o 'lord Forgue ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

But bake ye plenty o 'breid, an' that'll haud doon the expence. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

"Gin I dinna fess a loaf o 'white breid, never lippen (trust) to me again." ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

"'Cause they tell me the Bible says the richteous man sall never come to beg his breid." ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

` ` Item, to the said Sir Peter, to buy breid and drink to the said puir men vj li. xiij s. iiij d. ❋ Unknown (1845)

` ` The Lords of his Magesty's Privy Council having receaved information that Scott of Raeburn, and Isobel Mackdougall, his wife, being infected with the error of Quakerism, doe endeavour to breid and trains up William, ❋ Unknown (1822)

Andrew accepted of the breid and cheefe, and feeitig that nobody offered him any thing elfe made his bows, and as the faying is, took his root in his * hand. ❋ Unknown (1792)