 An' getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm....  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 961831Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our liame, \Vharcsits our sulky sullen dame. Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Tliis truth fand honest Tom o' Sltanlar, A» ho frae Ayr, ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr whom ne'er... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...waters, slat*, and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Catherine her brows like gathering storm Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tarn o' Shanier, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, lAuld Ayr whom ne'er a... | |
 | 1833 - 250 pages
...enough to get it. But, methought, when one went home where, perhaps, sat some "sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows, like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm," it would appease her but little to state, that their joint earnings had been spent for ginger-cakes... | |
 | Davy Crockett, James Strange French - Hunting - 1834 - 220 pages
...enough to get it. But, methought, when one went home where, perhaps, sat some "sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows, like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm," it would appease her but little to state, that their joint earnings had been spent for ginger-cakes—... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 356 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Where sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1834 - 518 pages
...clinging thought of his reception at home, where sat his awful sister, for she would sit up for him, " Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." However, Stephen generally saw him in, and broke the first fury of the tempest, and sometimes laughed... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it \vann. This truth fand honest Tarn G'Shanter, As he, frae Jlyrt ae i/qht did canter, (Auld Ayr wham... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1835 - 338 pages
...clinging thought of his reception at home, where sat his awful sister, for she would sit up for him, " Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." However, Stephen generally saw him in, and broke the first fury of the tempest, and sometimes laughed... | |
 | 1835 - 862 pages
...passion seems stifling itself; or, as Burns quaintly describes it in the person of a sullen dame — " Gathering her brows like gathering storm. Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." Now, in either of these states, although the terror of public shame and punishment be thrown out of... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o'Shanter, As he frae Ayr, ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr whom ne'er a town... | |
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