That's just your ain shooting-box--they call it Auchnasheen.
If you hear nae good of yourself, it is just your ain blame.
I was wae for Duncan; but still, Miss Oona, things is no desperate so lang as you keep safe your ain coo.
Ye may tak the benefit o' a presumption in yer ain favour till I come back.
Weel," was the tardy reply, "a wilfu' man maun hae his ain way.
The glaikit limmers, will they no be content wi' their ain game, but maun turn common thieves?
Your honour sall get ane o' the Colonel's ain ruffled sarks, but this maun gang in the baggage-cart.
Where would you be ganging, but to the Laird's ain house of Glennaquoich?
I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.
I hope ye hae secured the approbation of your ain friends and allies, particularly of your uncle, who is in loco parentis?
And what wul ye leive to your ain mither deir, Edward, Edward?
But lang ere seven years had an end, She longed full sore her love to see, So she's set her foot on good ship-board, And turned her back on her ain countrie.
Now haud your tongue, bonnie Lizie; Ye never sall rue for me; Gie me but your luve for my ain luve, It is a' that your tocher will be.
And what wul ye leive to your ain mither deir, My deir son, now tell me O.
She took me up in her milk-white hand, And she straiked me three times o'er her knee; She changed me again to my ain proper shape, And I nae mair maun toddle about the tree.
He has called him forty Marchmen bauld, I trow they were of his ain name, Except Sir Gilbert Elliot, called The Laird of Stobs, I mean the same.
And sighin said that ladie gay, "I wish I were in my ain countrie.
An sighing said that gay lady, I wish I were in myain country!
And there it is, a silken sarke, Your ain hand sewd the sleive; Ze maun gae speik to Gill Morice: Speir nae bauld barons leave.
It was long or seven years had an end She longd fu sair her love to see; She's set her foot on good ship-board, And turnd her back on her ain country.
Ye'll tak her in your arms twa, lo, lift her canny, And throw her out ower board, your ain dear Annie.
He has not ta'en me by force nor slight; It was a' by my ain free will; He may tarry into the fight, For here I mean to tarry still.
What brought ye here, my lady gay, So far awa' from your ain country?
Ye'll tak me in your arms twa, lo, lift me canny, Throw me out ower board, your ain dear Annie.
Laird's ain Jock, "I count him lighter than a flee.
When Maitland saw his ain blood fa', An angry man was he!
When Maitland saw his ain blude fa', An angry man was he,--P.
For instead of his ain ten milk kye, Jamie Telfer has gotten thirty and three.
Scotchman again melodized with a dying fall, "My ain countree!
Forbye, he tells me, his new wife has a fortune in her ain right, and sae the world stands straight with him and his.
Madame smiled and then admitted "men had their ain ways, and so couldna be judged by woman's ways.
You ken, as weel as I do, that if Bradley promised Maria's father to deliver her into your hand, at your ain house, he would do no other way.
They are sae sure o' their ain power and wisdom that they are mair than stupid.
His feet o' their ain accord will find their way to your house, Agnes," said Madame.
I expect as much; my son Alexander has my ain perception concerning women-folk.
I'll never be missed in the crowd, and I can sing 'Glory be to God' in my ain house.
As long as I bide in this warld I'll do my ain fighting, if I die for it.
You can now tell your ain news, or keep it, whichever seems best to you.
Scots may love America, but they never hate their ain dear Scotland; they wouldna hurt the old land, not even in thought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words: ainsi que; aint agoin
