"Lawing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in a dry reveche tone, which carried me back twenty years, 'I am nane of thae heartsome landleddies that can tell country cracks, and make themsells agreeable; and I was ganging to pit on a fire for you in the red room; but if it is your will to stay here, he that pays the lawing maun ...
— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop
... Carruthers persuade him to mortgage everything and buy land on the river for the car-shops of the new railroad, which just fooled the town out of a hundred thousand dollars, and is going by on the other side of the river with the shops up at Bolivar. If James didn't get all the lawing in Alton County they would all starve to death—which would be hard on the constitution of old lady Hargrove, ...
— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess
... make the worst of you, Bessy," said Mrs. Pullet, compassionately, "for I doubt you'll have trouble enough without that; and your husband's got that poor sister and her children hanging on him,—and so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies. Not as I'd have it said ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... that, my lord," quo' Willie; "By the faith o' my bodie, Lord Scroope," he said, "I never yet lodged in a hostelrie But I paid my lawing ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes |
