 | Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 348 pages
...law, when the kingdom was a kingdom." " I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs Howden ; " but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and...peeble them wi' stanes when they were na gude bairns — But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon." " Weary on Lunnon, and a' that e'er came out... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 350 pages
...law, when the kingdom was a kingdom." " I dinna ken muckle about the law,** answered Mrs Howden; " but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and...aye peeble them wi' stanes when they were na gude bairns—But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon." " Weary on Lunnon, and a' that e'er came... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 332 pages
...law, when the kingdom was a kingdom." " I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs. Howden; " but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and...aye peeble them wi' stanes when they' were na gude bairns—But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon." " Weary on Lunnon, and a' that e'er came... | |
 | Walter Scott - Covenanters - 1818 - 352 pages
...law, when the kingdom was a kingdom." " I diiina ken rauckle about the law," answered Mrs Howden; " but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and...we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they were nagude bairns — But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon." " Weary on Lunnon, and a' that... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 354 pages
...law," answered Mrs Howden; "but Iken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament-men o' onr ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they were na gude bairns—But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon." " Weary on Lunnon, an'd a' that e'er... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1830 - 434 pages
...law, when the kingdom was a kingdom." " I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs Howden ; " but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament-men «»' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns — But naebody's nails... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 676 pages
...ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs. Howden ; " but I ken, when we had a king, and a chan cellor, and parliament-men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they were na gude bairns — But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon." " Weary on Lunnon, and a' that e'er came out... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1843 - 710 pages
...law, when the kingdom was a kingdom." " I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs. Howden ; " but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and...ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns — But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon." " Weary on Lunnon, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 728 pages
...law, when the kingdom was a kingdom." " I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs. Howden ; " but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and...ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns — But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon." " Ye may say that — Miss... | |
 | 1904 - 926 pages
...Edited by Robert Low Ord. Authorized Resald Mrs. Howden, in an early chapter of The Heart of Midlothian, "but I ken when we had a King and a Chancellor and Parliament men of our ain, we could aye pebble them with stanes when they were'na gude bairns. But... | |
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I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs. Howden; "but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament-men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns - But naebody's nails can reach the length o 
