How To Use Bawbee In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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“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
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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
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I put a gold sovereign on the plate in mistake for a bawbee.
The British Commonwealth In a Bewildered World
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[863] A _bawbee_, the vulgar name for a halfpenny.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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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.
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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.
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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
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So before me lies an old "bawbee" of my own home city.
Civics: as Applied Sociology
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a few hours; indeed, this holds good of all the churches, especially perhaps of the Free one, which has been called the bawbee kirk, because so many halfpennies find their way into the plate.
Auld Licht Idyls
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“To show you the contrary,” said the Duke, “I will fill my box out of this canister without paying you a bawbee;” and again desiring to be remembered to Jeanie, with his good wishes for her safe journey, he departed, leaving Mrs. Glass uplifted in heart and in countenance, the proudest and happiest of tobacco and snuff dealers.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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There's a tinkler wife needin 'a bawbee's-wirth, an' I've socht the shop heich an 'laich for't.
My Man Sandy
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But they may cash his bills that will; I ken ane that will never advance a bawbee on ony paper that has John Mowbray either on the back or front of it.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye'll be an honest fallow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi 'this Sassenach.
Rob Roy — Complete
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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,60 and then we’ll birl our bawbees a’ round about, like brethren.”
Rob Roy
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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 — Volume 02
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Sandy had in his pocket two coins -- a "bawbee", as the Scotch call it, a copper, and a gold sovereign.
The British Commonwealth In a Bewildered World
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Regairdin 'this noo kirkyaird bisness, I think it's ridic'lous to spend the toon's bawbees buyin' buryin 'grund for fowk that's no' deid.
My Man Sandy
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` ` let us drink and gree like honest fellows --- The house will haud us a. 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
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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 fellow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi 'this Sassenach.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
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` ` let us drink and gree like honest fellows --- The house will haud us a. 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
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If it is something very stingy or very liberal, all Thrums knows of it within a few hours; indeed, this holds good of all the churches, especially perhaps of the Free one, which has been called the bawbee kirk, because so many halfpennies find their way into the plate.
Auld Licht Idylls
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It believes the bawbees can be put to better use.
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Here then, plain upon this apparent arbitrarily levised trifle, this petty provincial money-token, this poor bawbee, that is, this coin not only of the very humblest order, but proverbially sordid at that, we find clearly set down, long generations ago, the whole [Page: 99] four-fold analysis and synthesis of civic life we have been above labouring for.
Civics: as Applied Sociology
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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
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Pointing to a drawing of the old Scotch bawbee, Professor Geddes said it was not a very dignified symbol of the coinage of the world, but let them mark how it had on the one side the hammerman at his work, with his motto "_Beat deus artem_," and, on the other side, a larger legend, with the eagle of the empire and the lamb of Saint John.
Civics: as Applied Sociology
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Gaolers were amateurs and for a few bawbees you could escape.
