How To Use bawbee In A Sentence
- I propose that this good little gentleman, that seems sair forfoughen, as I may say, in this tuilzie, shall send for a tass o 'brandy and I'll pay for another, by way of archilowe, * and then we'll birl our bawbees a' round about, like brethren. Rob Roy — Complete
- In trying to squeeze every last bawbee out of the situation he has created, Scott is behaving exactly as he did when he ran the club.
- “If I gie ye a bawbee,” said he to an urchin of about ten years old, with a fragment of a tattered plaid about him, “will you understand Sassenach?” Rob Roy
- His "Auld Gudeman, ye're a drucken carle," "Jenny's Bawbee," and "Jenny dang the Weaver," are of another kind, and perhaps fuller of the peculiar spirit of the man. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
- I put a gold sovereign on the plate in mistake for a bawbee. The British Commonwealth In a Bewildered World
- [863] A _bawbee_, the vulgar name for a halfpenny. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
- I supported the party loyally for 35 years, often representing it in elections and, even more often, giving it my bawbees, both at local and national level.
- In any given year only some contracts are up for renewal come the end of May, and a minority of players may resist moving on to an incentive-based pay plan while colleagues continue to earn their bawbees just for showing face.
- Hark thee, man --- I owe thee a day in harst --- I'll pay up your thousan pund Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye'll be an honest fallow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi 'this Rob Roy
- So before me lies an old "bawbee" of my own home city. Civics: as Applied Sociology
