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Steenie, Baby Charles, and our council — till he heard of the tocher, and then, by my kingly crown, he lap like a cock at a grossart!

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

The earl is the vera soul of honour, and cares nae mair for warld's gear than a noble hound for the quest of a foulmart; but as for his son, he was like to brazen us all out -- ourselves, Steenie, Baby Charles, and our Council, till he heard of the tocher, and then by my kingly crown he lap like a cock at a grossart!

Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861

Baby Charles, and our council -- till he heard of the tocher, and then, by my kingly crown, he lap like a cock at a grossart!

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

Peter lap at the proposition like a cock at a grossart; for, he said, the only chance was to get a new hand, that did not ken the charge he was taking upon him; for there was not a lad of two sessions’ standing that was not dead-sick of Peter

Redgauntlet 2008

Peter lap at the proposition like a cock at a grossart; for, he said, the only chance was to get a new hand, that did not ken the charge he was taking upon him; for there was not a lad of two sessions 'standing that was not dead-sick of Peter Peebles and his cause; and he advised me to break the matter gently to you at the first; but I told him you were, a good bairn, Alan, and had no will and pleasure in these matters but mine.'

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

The earl is the vera soul of honour, and cares nae mair for warld's gear than a noble hound for the quest of a foulmart; but as for his son, he was like to brazen us all out ” ourselves, Steenie, Baby Charles, and our Council, till he heard of the tocher, and then by my kingly crown he lap like a cock at a grossart!

Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878

But as to what the laird, whose grandfather was my father's landlord, said to the new doings yonder -- he just jumped at the ready penny, like a cock at a grossart. '"

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836