Cloot

Martin the shepherd — and he wrung his hands in the bitterness of agony, “the thieves, the harrying thieves I not a cloot left of the haill hirsel!” ❋ Unknown (2008)

"If there cam 'an Irish beggar, wi' a stripy cloot him and a bellows under 's arm, and ca'd himsel 'a Hielander, the lad wad gi'e him his silly head off his shoulders." ❋ Various (N/A)

Mistress Kenawee's face, puir thing, was as white as a cloot; but Sandy's was as black as the man More o 'Vennis, the bleckie that smored his wife i' the theatre for carryin 'on wi' a sodger. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

I live by bread, I have not a single cloot o them! ❋ Unknown (1898)

Harry and I hae been to gather what was on the outby land, and there's scarce a cloot left. ❋ Unknown (1898)

"If there cam 'an Irish beggar, wi' a stripy cloot roond him and a bellows under 's arm, and ca'd himsel 'a Hielander, the lad would gi'e him his silly head off his shoulders." ❋ Unknown (1873)

He's sic a leveller as was feow afore 'im, I doobt, wi' his gowd ringt man, an 'his cloot cled brither! ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

I tellt her 'at a' my brithers was weel kenned for douce laads; an 'she tellt me to haud my tongue, an' no speyk up; an 'I cud hae jist gien her a guid cloot ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

It's no barely to consider the time it'll tak me to cloot a pair, but what the weirer 's like to git oot o 'them. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

"Hoot De Courcy, yer 'speerits are so floostersome one would be inclined to theenk ye were not at all soorry to see the white cloot flying on yonder hill --" ❋ John Richardson (1824)

"We are broken and beggared now, out and out," said old Martin the shepherd -- and he wrung his hands in the bitterness of agony, "the thieves, the harrying thieves I not a cloot left of the haill hirsel!" ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

R.B. P.S. The cloot has unfortunately broke, but I have provided a fine buffalo-horn, on which I am going to affix the same cipher which you will remember was on the lid of the cloot. ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

"An 'noo luik at yersel': what yer father confesst wi 'the verra deid thraw o' a labourin 'speerit, to the whilk naething cud ha'e broucht him but the deid thraws (death struggles) o' the bodily natur 'an' the fear o 'hell, that same confession ye row up again i' the cloot o 'secrecy, in place o' dightin 'wi' 't the blot frae the memory o 'ane wha I believe I lo'ed mair as my third cousin nor ye du as yer ain mither!" ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Harry and I hae been to gather what was on the outby land, and there’s scarce a cloot left. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“As I live by bread, I have not a single cloot o’ them! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Gin that be sae, he micht weel gie Alec Forbes a back-handit cloot (blow). " ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

"As I live by bread," replied Willie of Westburnflat "As I live by bread, I have not a single cloot o 'them! ❋ Walter Scott (1801)