Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Some books are lies frae end to end.
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.