sealgh

` ` I maun be ganging my ways back to Fairport, '' said the wanderer; ` ` I want to see what they're saying there about the invasion; --- but I'll mind what your honour says, no to speak to you about a sealgh, or to the Captain about the hundred pounds that you gied to Douster '' ------

The Antiquary 1845

I saw him to-day engage in an animated contest with a phoca, or seal (sealgh, our people more properly call them, retaining the Gothic guttural gh), with as much vehemence as if he had fought against Dumourier

The Antiquary 1845

I saw him to-day engage in an animated contest with a _phoca, _ or seal (_sealgh, _ our people more properly call them, retaining the Gothic guttural _gh_), with as much vehemence as if he had fought against Dumourier -- Marry, my lord, the _phoca_ had the better, as the said Dumourier had of some other folks.

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

I saw him to-day engage in an animated contest with a _phoca, _ or seal (_sealgh, _ our people more properly call them, retaining the Gothic guttural _gh_), with as much vehemence as if he had fought against Dumourier -- Marry, my lord, the _phoca_ had the better, as the said Dumourier had of some other folks.

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

"I maun be ganging my ways back to Fairport," said the wanderer; "I want to see what they're saying there about the invasion; -- but I'll mind what your honour says, no to speak to you about a sealgh, or to the Captain about the hundred pounds that you gied to Douster" --

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

You may as well try to whistle a sealgh out of the Solway, as to get hold of one of them till all the fray is over. '

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

"I maun be ganging my ways back to Fairport," said the wanderer; "I want to see what they're saying there about the invasion; -- but I'll mind what your honour says, no to speak to you about a sealgh, or to the Captain about the hundred pounds that you gied to Douster" --

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

I saw him today engage in an animated contest with a phoca, or seal (sealgh, our people more properly call them, retaining the Gothic guttural gh), with as much vehemence as if he had fought against Dumourier — Marry, my lord, the phoca had the better, as the said Dumourier had of some other folks.

The Antiquary 1584

You may as well try to whistle a sealgh out of the Solway, as to get hold of one of them till all the fray is over.’

Redgauntlet 2008

“I maun be ganging my ways back to Fairport,” said the wanderer; “I want to see what they’re saying there about the invasion; — but I’ll mind what your honour says, no to speak to you about a sealgh, or to the Captain about the hundred pounds that you gied to Douster” — “Confound thee! —

The Antiquary 1584