"Bigging" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spectacles to look at the lassie in church, because she has gentle blue een, wi' long lashes; and when she sits in shadow, and is very still and very pale, and is, happen, about to fall asleep wi' the length of the sermon and the heat of the biggin', she is as like one of Canova's marbles ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte
... a boy, in a fine long coat, biggin-bib, muckender, and a little dagger; his usher bearing a great cake, with ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) • Harrison S. Morris
... it is, Frank," answered Jenkin, sharply, "that may be the fashion of you gentlefolks, that are taught from your biggin to carry two faces under the same hood, but it shall never ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott
... "Biggin a dry-stane dyke, I think, wi' the grey geese, as they ca' thae great loose stanes—Odd, that passes a' thing I e'er heard ...
— The Black Dwarf • Sir Walter Scott |
