blawing

"Um do say, sir," says mine host, rising purple-faced, while the moan is still coming out of the Stwun, "as they used in old times to warn the country-side by blawing the Stwun when the enemy was a-comin ', and as how folks could make un heered then for seven mile round; leastways, so I've heered Lawyer Smith say, and he knows a smart sight about them old times."

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

'Tis not the frost that freezes fell nor blawing snaw's inclemencie

Waly, Waly 3 1962

Nobody but himself could have written the first glorious stanza, which embodies so perfect a picture of despair, or the second, in which the old familiar phrase of "blawing intill his lug" is so appositely adapted to verse, and put into the mouth of a knightly

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

'Tis the fa 'o' the leaf, and the cauld winds are blawing, vol. v.,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Indeed, ye’ll no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o’ the Auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the Laird’s room, but only that wanchancy creature, the Major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the Laird’s whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the Laird himsell, if no better.

Wandering Willie’s Tale 1921

Indeed, ye’ll no hinder some to thread that it was nane o’ the auld Enemy that Dougal and Hutcheon saw in the laird’s room, but only that wanchancie creature the major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the laird’s whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the laird himsell, if not better.

Wandering Willie’s Tale 1907

"Ay," said Spens, "and to tak 'credit for that may be like blawing that you're ower honest to wear claethes."

The Little Minister 1898

Thae loons cried out to me as they gaed by that he has been blawing awa 'at that tune till he canna halt.

The Little Minister 1898

Spittal to here he never stopped that fearsome tune, and I'se warrant he's blawing away at it at this moment through the streets

The Little Minister 1898

--- All evil comes out o 'thereaway --- it's an auld saying and a true; and we'll e'en away there, as if the devil was blawing us south.' '

The Black Dwarf 1898