soutar

But nevertheless the soutar was a good and patient teacher; and although it took Robert rather more than a fortnight to redeem his pledge to Shargar, he did make progress.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

Here she gives herself out to be a soutar in the employ of James More, and gets admitted to his cell, the lieutenant (who seems to have been full of pleasantry) making sport among his soldiers of the soutar's greatcoat.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Here she gives herself out to be a soutar {16} in the employ of James

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Here she gives herself out to be a soutar [16] in the employ of

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

Something which he called his own religious sense appeared to know something of what the soutar must mean, though he could neither isolate nor define it.

Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

At an hour that caused the soutar anxiety as to whether the housekeeper might not have retired for the night, he rang the bell of the manse-door; which in truth did bring the minister himself from his study, to confront

Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

They were already in the house, for she had followed him in almost mechanically; and the soutar was setting for her the only chair there was, when the cry of a child reached their ears.

Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

He came with his wife to see her, and so a friendship began between the soutar and him, which Mr. Robertson always declared one of the most fortunate things that had ever befallen him.

Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

"I doobt, sir, it would hae broken the Sawbath waur, to fail o 'my word for the sake o' a steik or twa that maittered naething to God or man!" returned the soutar.

Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

The man was but reflecting, without knowing it, what the soutar had been saying the last time they encountered; neither did he think, at the moment, that the Lord himself had said something like it first.

Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864