sorning

The lady of the house is beset by more than a hundred wooers -- "sorning" on her, in the old

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

'Bad luck to her; were it a young one, or even an old man, I should not care,' he grumbled; 'but an old hag to come sorning on me, as I was about to step into my quiet bed.'

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To Prestongrange I could, of course, say nothing; for I had already been a long while sorning on his house and table.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Hieland gillies that will neither work nor want, and maun gang thigging and sorning about on their acquaintance,

Rob Roy 1887

Thigging and sorning was a kind of genteel begging, or rather something between begging and robbing, by which the needy in Scotland used to extort cattle, or the means of subsistence, from those who had any to

Rob Roy 1887

Milk 'll dae fine for yon birkie: he micht be gled tae get onything, sorning on

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

Milk'll dae fine for yon birkie: he micht be gled tae get onything, sorning on

Rabbi Saunderson Ian Maclaren 1878

Prestongrange I could, of course, say nothing; for I had already been a long while sorning on his house and table.

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

To Prestongrange I could, of course, say nothing; for I had already been a long while sorning on his house and table.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

-- But oh! the lumber-room, into which, on an early walk through the house of a friend on whom we had been sorning, all unprepared did we once set our foot!

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819