Farrant

Word FARRANT
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The word "farrant" in example sentences

You never heard sic a cratur for thae auld-farrant sayin's; an 'Mysie's no' far ahent. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

"I'm a gey auld-farrant-looking dear, I doubt," said Nanny, ruefully. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The auld-farrant, scraichin ', obstinate grey gander. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

He was "ill-farrant," and revengeful, -- ready to fight, but not ready to forgive. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)

But na; it seems he was owre auld-farrant for the like of that. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)

He was "ill farrant," and revengeful – ready to fight, but not ready to forgive. ❋ Unknown (1877)

Commons -- an 'he to be dead at last! the warld'll seem quite unco without his auld-farrant phizog on the streets. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

Balaamry -- fechtin 'that canny auld farrant fiend, Mammon, wi' his ain weapons -- and then a 'fleyed, because they get well beaten for their pains. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

Ochiltree, is very skeely and auld-farrant about mony things, as the diseases of cows and horse, and sic like, and I am sure be disna want to be at Tannonburgh the day for naething, since he insists on't this gate; and, if your leddyship pleases, I'll drive him there in the taxed-cart in an hour's time. ❋ Unknown (1845)

Often she declared that he was an "auld farrant bairn, and could ask a blessing like ony minister." ❋ Alexander Leighton (1837)

Not that she wanted the vivacity of her age, but that it was tempered by periods of serious musing, when all kinds of what the Scotch call "auld farrant" (far yont) thoughts come to be where they should not be, the consequence being a weird-like kind of wisdom, very like that of the aged; so the effect on ❋ Alexander Leighton (1837)

But, Andy, man, don't they talk some clash and havers anent her predilection for that weel-farrant callan, ❋ William Carleton (1831)

Having told him that I was myself, instead of a better; and having asked him to step in, that I might have a glimpse of his face at the candle, I saw that he was a stranger, dressed in a droll auld-farrant green livery - coat, faced with white. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

Having told him that I was myself, instead of a better; and having asked him to step in, that I might have a glimpse of his face at the candle, I saw that he was a stranger, dressed in a droll auld-farrant green livery-coat, faced with white. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

I found that to my cost in this matter; for, cheap as the coat and waistcoat seemed which I had bought from the auld-farrant Welsh flunkie with the peaked hat and the pigtail, I made no great shakes of them after all. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

Sad, too, to the Sage the thought of leaving his first-born as yet unborn -- or if born, haply an elfish Creature with a precocious countenance, looking as if he had begun life with borrowing ten years at least from his own father -- auld-farrant as a Fairy, and gash as the Last of the Lairds. ❋ John Wilson (1819)

She was the first person in that part of the world to think that old furniture need not be kept in the dark corners, and she knew where there was an oak bedstead that was looked upon as a disgrace, and where to obtain the dearest cupboards, one of them in use as the retiring-chamber of a rabbit-hutch, and stately clocks made in the town a hundred years ago, and quaint old-farrant lamps and cogeys and sand-glasses that apologized if you looked at them, and yet were as willing to be loved again as any old lady in a mutch. ❋ Unknown (1898)

I ken, Margaret, that I am an auld farrant trader, but I'se aye say that it is a bad well into which are must put water. " ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)

Eh, but he _is_ auld-farrant! wi 'mair gumption than mony full-grown men, to say naething o' women. " ❋ Unknown (1859)

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