"Thraw" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cried the paralytic hag from the cottage, "and let us do what is needfu', and say what is fitting; for, if the dead corpse binna straughted, it will girn and thraw, and that will fear ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... is set, my eyne are wet, cauld poortith now is mine; Nae mair I'll range by Coquet-side and thraw the gleesome line; Nae mair I'll see her bonnie stream in spring-bright raiment drest, Save in the dream that stirs the heart when the ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry
... the result of organisation and gineralship. A serjeant or corporal can kick or drive a few men in ony direction that's wanted, but it takes a gineral to move an army. If 'ee was to set a corporal to lead twunty thoosand men, he'd gie them orders that wad thraw them into a deed lock, an' than naethin' short o' a miracle could git them oot o't. Mony a battle's been lost by brave men through bad gineralship, an' mony a battle's been won by puir enough bodies o' men because of their ...
— The Settler and the Savage • R.M. Ballantyne
... With a girn that was like to rive his mouth, he twisted his nieve in the back of my hair, and off with me hanging by the cuff of the neck, like a kittling. My eyes were like to loup out of my head, but I had no breath to cry. I heard him thraw the key, for I could not look down, the skin of my face was pulled so tight; and in he flang me like a pair of old boots into his booth, where I landed on my knees upon a raw bloody calf's skin. I thought I would have gone out of ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir |
