bedral

Abbey — ye wadna hae me tell the gentleman a lee? and ye ken weel eneugh there is naebody in the town can say a reasonable word about it, be it no yoursell, except the bedral, and he is as fou as a piper by this time.

The Monastery 2008

I wad gar the bedral eat the bell-rope, if he took ony sic freedom.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Like a wrinkled and bearded saint blessing some worshipping bedral.

The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems Kate Seymour MacLean

Sunday coat, he was half led, half dragged down the steps by the bedral, shrunken together like one caught in a shameful deed, and with the ghastly look of him who has but just revived from the faint supervening on the agonies of the rack.

The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

Winnet, the bedral, and howkit mair graves than ane in my day; but I left him in winter, for it was unco cald wark; and then it cam a green Yule, and the folk died thick and fast --- for ye ken a green Yule makes a fat kirkyard; and I never dowed to bide a hard turn o 'wark in my life --- sae aff I gaed, and left

The Antiquary 1845

` ` Hout, lad, '' said Edie, getting down in his room --- ` ` let me try my hand for an auld bedral; --- ye're gude seekers, but ill finders. ''

The Antiquary 1845

"Ance I wrought a simmer wi 'auld Will Winnet, the bedral, and howkit mair graves than ane in my day; but I left him in winter, for it was unco cauld wark; and then it cam a green Yule, and the folk died thick and fast."

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

--- I wad gar the bedral eat the bell-rope, if he took ony sic freedom.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

"Hout, lad," said Edie, getting down in his room -- "let me try my hand for an auld bedral; -- ye're gude seekers, but ill finders."

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

"Hout, lad," said Edie, getting down in his room -- "let me try my hand for an auld bedral; -- ye're gude seekers, but ill finders."

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801