bourock

Here we have a witness-never fash whether material or not-a witness in this cause, kidnapped by that old, lawless, bandit crew of the Glengyle Macgregors, and sequestered for near upon a month in a bourock of old ruins on the Bass.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Macgregors, and sequestered for near upon a month in a bourock of old cold ruins on the Bass.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

` ` Who, I? '' said the mendicant --- ` ` Lord bless your honour, naebody sall ken a word about it frae me, mair than if the bit bourock had been there since Noah's flood.

The Antiquary 1845

Monkbarns, if ye howk up the bourock, as ye seem to have began, yell find, if ye hae not fund it already, a stane that ane o 'the mason-callants cut a ladle on to have a bourd at the bridegroom, and he put four letters on't, that's A.D.L.L. --- Aiken Drum's Lang

The Antiquary 1845

` ` About this bit bourock, your honour, '' answered the undaunted Edie; ` ` I mind the bigging o't. ''

The Antiquary 1845

But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Prtorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words --- ` ` Prtorium here, Prtorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade. ''

The Antiquary 1845

Now, if he has really imposed the bourock on ye for an ancient wark, it's my real opinion the bargain will never haud gude, if you would just bring down your heart to try it at the law, and say that he beguiled ye. ''

The Antiquary 1845

But then came in the story of my poor bairn, and my mother thought he wad be deaved wi 'it's skirling, and she pat it away in below the bit bourock of turf yonder, just to be out o' the gate; and I think she buried my best wits with it, for I have never been just mysell since.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

The moment that Robin saw them, he kenned, by their movements, that they were craws o 'some ither warld than this; so he signed himself, and crap into the middle o' his bourock.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1802

But then came in the story of my poor bairn, and my mother thought he wad be deaved wi 'it's skirling, and she pat it away in below the bit bourock of turf yonder, just to be out o' the gate; and I think she buried my best wits with it, for I have never been just mysell since.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801