Ralph has a bloody coxcomb, by a blow from a messan-page whom nobody knew — Dick Seyton of Windygowl is run through the arm, and two gallants of the Leslies have suffered phlebotomy. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yes, I met him sneaking through the lanes and bye passages with a common minstrel wench, with her messan and her viol on his one arm and her buxom self hanging upon the other. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You would not consent to put forth your fathers poor dog, and would you use me waur than a messan? ❋ Unknown (1917)
It was not, indeed, expected at that time, that Highlanders would attack cavalry in an open plain, though late events have shown that they may do so with success. supper a messan-dog --- sic awsome language as that I ne'er heard out o 'a human thrapple; --- and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended. ❋ Unknown (1887)
I spoke to my master, and said that we must strive to buy her a new ape, or a little messan dog, to be her playfellow. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
He gave a charge on his lands to a goldsmith at York to pay for my up-bringing, and I verily believe thought no more of me than if I had been a messan dog. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Petronelle, who takes such care of me that she dogs my footsteps like a messan. ' ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Tower, and St. Peter's in the Fetters to pray in, which was what he heeded most; also he had a messan dog, and a tame bird. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Mother Dolly, though she persisted that snow was nothing to her, and it was a fine jest to be out of the reach of the Sisters, who mewed her up in a cell, like a messan dog. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Christiana, and I will be the maiden, Mercy -- for ye ken Mercy was of the fairer countenance, and the more alluring than her companion -- and if I had my little messan dog here, it would be Great-heart, their guide, ye ken, for he was e'en as bauld, that he wad bark at ony thing twenty times his size; and that was e'en the death of him, for he bit Corporal ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
You would not consent to put forth your father's poor dog, and would you use me waur than a messan? ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Guiyock, * wha hadna as muckle o 'him left thegither as would supper a messan-dog -- sic awsome language as that I ne'er heard out o' a human thrapple; -- and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Johnstones, and great lairds, that the oaths used to keep out lang syne — the bits o’ messan doggies, like my son, and maybe like your father’s son, Mr. Alan, will be sair put to the wall.’ ❋ Unknown (2008)
“I wish Lady Ashton had seen this,” was his internal reflection; “no man knows so well as Bittlebrains on which side his bread is buttered; and he fawns on the Master like a beggar’s messan on a cook. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Guiyock,66 wha hadna as muckle o’ him left thegither as would supper a messan-dog — sic awsome language as that I ne’er heard out o’ a human thrapple; — and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended. ❋ Unknown (2005)
You would not consent to put forth your father’s poor dog, and would you use me waur than a messan? ❋ Unknown (1815)
