"Braw" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... innovation, That a' the warld may see, There's nane in the right but we, Of the auld Scottish nation. Jenny shall wear the hood, Jocky the sark of God; And the kist-fou of whistles, That mak sic a cleiro, Our piper's braw Shall hae them a', Whate'er come on it: Busk up your plaids, my lads! Cock up your bonnets! ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... weel," said our student, nodding after him. "He's a lawyer in Edinburgh, and a braw hand at the stringin' of verses. Wattie Scott is ...
— The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... sirris-shaws were sere, An' the nichts were lang and mirk, In braw new breeks, wi' a gowden ring, Oor Jock gaed to ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... years since the first book was printed in England, the Roman occupation lasted as long, and who thinks of that as a long period? Perhaps it is because we are in the reading and writing age that our boys and girls must become "braw, braw clerks," instead of living on and by the land. History, particularly primitive history, should help us all to be "grateful to those unknown pioneers of the human race to whose struggles and suffering, discoveries and energies ...
— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith
... and repose to his mind. What better prospect can his windows command than the valley of the Thames from Richmond Hill, the view Argyll showed Jeanie Deans, which drew from her the admission "it was braw rich feeding for the cows," though she herself would as soon have been looking at "the craigs of Arthur's Seat and the sea coming ayont them, as at a' that muckle trees." Certainly no home was ever more appreciated and loved than Pembroke Lodge, both by Lord and Lady John Russell and their ...
— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell
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