book-lear

My lord, my legs and arms stood me in more stead than either my gentle kin or my book-lear, and I found myself trailing a pike as a private gentleman under old Sir Ludovick Leslie, where I learned the rules of service so tightly, that I will not forget them in a hurry.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

He would give him some book-lear, he said; let him make a kirk or a mill o't.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

My lord, my legs and arms stood me in more stead than either my gentle kin or my book-lear, and I found myself trailing a pike as

A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801

To this decision I have been urged by the elbowing on of not a few judicious friends; among whom I would particularly remark James Batter, who has been most earnest in his request, and than whom a truer judge on any thing connected with book-lear, or a better neighbour, does not breathe the breath of life: both of which positions will, I doubt not, appear as clear as daylight to the reader, in the course of the work: to say nothing of the approval the scheme met with from the pious Maister

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

To this decision I have been urged by the elbowing on of not a few judicious friends, among whom I would particularly remark James Batter, who has been most earnest in his request, and than whom a truer judge on anything connected with book-lear, or a better neighbour, does not breathe the breath of life: both of which positions will, I doubt not, appear as clear as daylight to the reader, in the course of the work: to say nothing of the approval the scheme met with from the pious Maister

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824