"Gowd" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... poverty That hangs his head and a' that? The coward slave we pass him by— We dare be poor for a' that.' * * * * * 'The rank is but the guinea stamp— The man's the gowd for a' that.' ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... again tempted to put in his oar; for where cash was concerned he did not willingly remain silent. 'Perhaps he had better carry the gowd to Miss Mac-Ivor, in case of mortality or accidents of war. It might tak the form of a mortis causa donation in the young leddie's favour, and—wad cost but the scrape of a pen to ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... tak' them a' in thegither, an' see them playin' into ane anither's han' like. I was jist thinkin', as I came hame the nicht in the sinset, hoo it wad hae been naewise sae complete, wi' a' its red an' gowd an' green, gin it hadna been for the cauld blue east ahint it, wi' the twa-three shiverin' starnies leukin' through't. An' doubtless the warld to come 'ill be a' the warmer to them 'at hadna ower muckle happin here. But I'm jist haverin', clean haverin', Mr. Sutherlan'," concluded David, ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald
... there for honest poverty That hangs his head, and a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that; For a' that and a' that; Our toils obscure and a' that; The rank is but the guinea-stamp, The man's the gowd ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various |
