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- noun Plural form of
bield . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bield .
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Examples
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Yes; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o 'their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs!
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Yes; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o 'their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs!
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Scotland an ancient saying, 'Scorn not the bush that bields you' -- you are a guest of my father's house to shelter you from danger, if I am rightly informed by the domestics.
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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Halbert, who had sustained the glance of the Englishman with some impatience, and knew not what to make of his manner and language, replied with some asperity, “Sir Knight, we have in this land of Scotland an ancient saying, ‘Scorn not the bush that bields you’ — you are a guest of my father’s house to shelter you from danger, if I am rightly informed by the domestics.
The Monastery 2008
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o 'bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs!
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Yes; there’s thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o’ their bits o’ bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs!
Guy Mannering 1815
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