Robin Oig, indeed, spoke the English language rather imperfectly upon any other topics but stots and kyloes, and Harry Wakefield could never bring his broad Yorkshire tongue to utter a single word of Gaelic. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Rob Roy replied, with great coolness, “Were the question about driving Highland stots or kyloes, Sandie, I would yield to your superior skill; but as it respects the leading of men, I must be allowed to be the better judge.” — “Did the matter respect driving Glen – Eigas stots,” answered the Macpherson, “the question with Rob would not be, which was to be last, but which was to be foremost.” ❋ Unknown (2005)
Robin Oig, indeed, spoke the English language rather imperfectly upon any other topics but stots and kyloes, and Harry ❋ Various (N/A)
"We wont differ, Sawney, if you let me have six stots for winterers, in the way of reason." ❋ Various (N/A)
On the second day of an October Falkirk Tryst (I had sold out, as I generally did, the first day), I was standing with a dealer from the north who had forty or sixty -- I think sixty -- two-year-old polled stots to sell. ❋ William M'Combie (N/A)
Guid kens how long it took him, but he sowed his hill grasses with his corn, and the seeds came, as we say, and he cut it and threshed it with the flails; and after that he had hay-stacks in his yard, and his beasts were well done by, so that at the fair he got great prices both for stots and back-calvers. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
We were in partnership at the time, and bought seventy small polled stots to take to Hallow Fair, to which we had sent off two or three droves the week before. ❋ William M'Combie (N/A)
On market-day, when Tom walks behind a drove and whacks the stots over the hips with a stick, he is doing exactly what you did this afternoon. ❋ Alexander Sutherland Neill (1928)
Theres auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard; I had them a regularly entered, first wi rottensthen wi stots or weaselsand then wi the tods and brocksand now they fear naething that ever cam wi a hairy skin on t. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Thus might one of the Hereford stots he resembled approach a green pasture. ❋ Louis Tracy (1895)
Rob Roy replied, with great coolness, ` ` Were the question about driving Highland stots or kyloes, Sandie, I would yield to your superior skill; but as it respects the leading of men, I must be allowed to be the better judge. '' ❋ Unknown (1887)
Glen-Eigas stots, '' answered the Macpherson, ` ` the question with Rob would not be, which was to be last, but which was to be foremost. '' ❋ Unknown (1887)
England, probably by skriegh of day -- and in my opinion you had best be travelling with the stots, 'said she. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
Ury, near Stonehaven, and took twelve stots frae Davie Barclay to pay the printer. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
Dandie Dinmont, in "Guy Mannering," speaking of his terriers, says, "I had them a 'regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi 'stots and weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks, and now they fear naething that ever comes wi 'a hairy skin on't." ❋ Adam White (1848)
She afterwards assigns him the like number of stots or bullocks, to harrow what the evangelists had ploughed, and this new horned team consists of Saint or Stot Ambrose, Stot Austin, Stot Gregory, and Stot Jerome. ❋ George Gilfillan (1845)
There are great stots in Ireland, but they canna get here for horns. ❋ Alexander Hislop (1836)
Robin was ance a weel-doing, painstaking drover, as ye wad see amang ten thousand -- It was a pleasure to see him in his belted plaid and brogues, wi 'his target at his back, and claymore and dirk at his belt, following a hundred Highland stots, and a dozen o' the gillies, as rough and ragged as the beasts they drave. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
