"Gane" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... siccan men noo as the Andersons o' Deeside," said Rob Adair, with a kind of pride and pleasure in his voice. "I'm a dale aulder than you, Saunders, an' I mind weel o' the faither o' him that's gane." (Rob had in full measure the curious South-country disinclination to ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett
... gane up the hill hard an' hungry; Donald's come down the hill wild an' angry: Donald will clear the gowk's nest cleverly; Here's to the King ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury
... Lady Downie has gane, Her coats she has kilted up to her knee; And down the water wi' speed she rins, While tears in spates fa' fast frae ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry
... are in the fauld and the kye a' at hame, When a' the weary world to sleep are gane, The waes o' my heart fa' in showers frae my e'e, While my ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... terrible calamity that hes befaen oor brither, and a'm feelin' as if a' hed lost a bairn o' my ane, for a sweeter lassie didna cross oor kirk door. Nane o' us want tae know what hes happened or where she hes gane, and no a word o' this wull cross oor lips. Her faither's dune mair than cud be expeckit o' mortal man, and noo we have oor duty. It's no the way o' this Session tae cut aff ony member o' the flock at a stroke, and we 'ill no begin with Flora ...
— Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush • Ian Maclaren
... was like a man in a dream—he looked for the stranger, but he was gane for the time. At last he just tried to say, 'Ha! Dougal Driveower, are ye living? I thought ye ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... have gane roun our hill, So now I think it's right we had oor fill Of guid strang punch—'twould make us a' to sing. Because this day we have dune a guid thing; For gangin' roun' oor hill we think nae shame, Because frae it oor ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... my lane, Wi' Horace, or perhaps Montaigne, The mornin' hours hae come an' gane Abune my heid - I wadnae gi'en a chucky-stane For ...
— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson
... said, "a land where there are naught but Douglases and men bound body and soul to the Douglas, from Solway even to the Back Shore o' Leswalt? 'Tis just no possible—I'll wager that it is that Hieland gipsy Mistress Lindesay that has some love ploy on hand, and has gane aff and aiblins ta'en the ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett |
