"Limmer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that man!" he cried. "O the unfaithful shepherd! O the hireling and apostate minister! Make my matters hot for me? quo' she! the shameless limmer! And true it is, that he could repose me in that nasty, stinking hole, the Canongate Tolbooth, from which your mother drew me out—the Lord reward her for it!—or to that cold, unbieldy, marine place of the Bass Rock, which, with my delicate ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Limmer, one of the better artists here in Vienna, produced some of his compositions for four violoncelli. Merk, by his expressive playing, made them, as usual, more beautiful than they really are. People ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... queerly eneugh,' said Dandie; 'but I'll tell ye that after we are done wi' our supper, for it will maybe no be sae weel to speak about it while that lang-lugged limmer o' a lass is gaun flisking in and ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... think we dinna ken the reason that Sanny has lost his contracts an' the reason why Tam Granger has stepped into them? Oh, ay," she cried, her voice rising as she continued. "I can see hoo things are workin'! I ken a' aboot it. Wee Leebie, I suppose, will be afore some o' us noo. The stuck-up limmer that she is. She gangs by folk as brazened as you like, wi' her head in the air, as if she was somebody. You wad think she never had heard o' Willie Broonclod, the packman, that she sloped when she left doon the country. Nae wonder she has braw claes to glaik aboot in; for ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh
... my reasons. How was my lad Andrew used by the both of you? And what do you think of his last meeting with that heartless limmer and her ...
— A Knight of the Nets • Amelia E. Barr
... "The limmer thieves o' Liddesdale Wadna leave a kye in the haill countrie, But an[3] we gi'e them the cauld steel, Our gear they'll reive it a' awaye, Sae pert they stealis, I you saye. O' late they came to Hautwessel, And thowt they there wad drive a fray. But Alec Ridley ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry
... wi' the waefu', and laughed wi' the glad, And light as the wind 'mang the dancers was she; And a tongue that could jeer, too, the little limmer had, Whilk keepit aye her ain side for bonnie Bessie Lee! She could sing like the lintwhite that sports 'mang the whins, An' sweet was her note as the bloom to the bee— It has aft thrilled my heart whaur our wee ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... it your business to ram-stam in an' destroy ither folks' property? Did I bring you up i' the fear o' the Lord to slash at men wi' your dirk an' fight wi' them like a wild limmer? I've been ower-easy wi' you. Weel, I'll do my painfu' duty the nicht, lass." The Scotchman's eyes were as hard and as inexorable as those of ...
— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine |
