"Wae" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... day hass fallen on us, Kenneth. Five hundred years the Macdonalds have held the post of honour. They will never fight on the left," he told me in bitter despair and grief. "Wae's me! The red death grips us. Old MacEuan who hass the second sight saw a vision in the night of Cumberland's ridens driving over a field lost to the North. Death on the field and on ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine
... we are blinded that live in this valley of tears and darkness, and hae a' ower mony errors, grit folks as weel as sma'—but, as I said, my puir bennison will rest wi' you and yours wherever I am. I will be wae to hear o' your affliction, and blithe to hear o' your prosperity, temporal and spiritual. But I canna prefer the commands of an earthly mistress to those of a heavenly master, and sae I am e'en ready to suffer for ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... the nicht. Is the lamp kindled in the window? We've baith been wae these mony years, but the mirk'll be past an' by when oor laddie's ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... a' the better for 't i' the en'," she said, with a smile of the deepest sympathy, "though, bein' my ain, I canna help bein' wae for 'im. But the Lord was i' the airthquak, an' the fire, an' the win' that rave the rocks, though the prophet couldna see 'im. Donal 'ill come oot o' this wi' mair room in's hert an' mair licht ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald
... chuse, but ever will Be luving to thy father still, Whaireir he gae, whaireir he ryde, My luve with him maun still abyde; In weil or wae, whaireir he gae, Mine heart can neir depart him frae. Lady Anne ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book X • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... me well, betide me wae, This day I'se leave the shore; And never spend my King's monie 'Mong Noroway dogs ...
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... Hobbie, "I'm wae ye suld hae cause to say sae; I'm sure it wasna wi' my will. And yet, it's true, I should hae minded your goats, and coupled up the dogs. I'm sure I would rather they had worried the primest wether in my faulds.—Come, man, forget and forgie. I'm e'en as vexed as ye can be—But I am a bridegroom, ...
— The Black Dwarf • Sir Walter Scott
... way. And then she rocked back and forward, as if to make it sleep, hushing it, and wasting on it her infinite fondness. "Wae's me, doctor; I declare she's thinkin' it's that bairn." "What bairn?" "The only bairn we ever had; our wee Mysie, and she's in the Kingdom forty years and mair." It was plainly true; the pain in the breast, telling its urgent story to a bewildered, ruined brain, was misread and mistaken; ...
— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various
... "Just the wae wid 'em," observed Conolly, "all honey or all vinegar— there's never a good turn they won't do ye now. If it had not been for the 'cratur', there wouldn't have been ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat
... Wae's me, for the puir callant than! He wambles like a poke o' bran, An' the lowse rein, as hard's he can, Pu's, trem'lin' handit; Till, blaff! upon his hinderlan' Behauld ...
— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson
... "Oh tear! wae's me!" he moaned, as he stooped down and picked up the instrument. "Put ta enemies o' ta Mackhai listened to ta pibroch, and she turned and fled; put," he added, looking round piteously, "it was a pran new pahg, it was a ...
— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn
... collie—. Aye, and I am no sure that I wad not like a turn the noo—not o' that saft stuff that will melt and be gane the morn's mornin', but the fine kind that sifts up your sleeve and down your neck!—But for the puir herds on the hill, wae's me, it will be a wakerife time for them. Little sleep will they get if the snaw begins to drift in ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett
... a' we've got, so let's fa' to; and haste ye, lad. It's a sair heart she'll hae this night—wae's me!" ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne
... called him a low, vulgar fellow for presuming to address a lady. She worked herself into a fury, and said far worse than that; a perfect guller of clarty language came pouring out of her. He had heard women curse many a time without turning a hair, but he felt wae when she did it, for she just spoke it like a bairn that had been in ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... frush saugh wand! And wae betide the bush of brier! That bent and brake into his hand, When strength of man ...
— The Book of Old English Ballads • George Wharton Edwards
... bluidy clay, Their graves are growing green to see: And by them lies the dearest lad That ever blest a woman's ee! Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord, A bluidy man I trow thou be; For mony a heart thou hast made sair That ne'er did wrong to thine ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various |
