Delia My Jean Of A' theAirts the Wind Can Blaw The Bonnie Wee Thing Sir Walter Scott.
I have heard O Brignall banks are wild and fair Of all the girls that are so smart Of a' the airts the wind can blaw Of Nelson and the North O Friend!
These two stanzas were written as a continuation of Burns's popular song, "Of a' the airts the wind can blaw.
These verses were written as a continuation to Burns's "Of a' the airts the wind can blaw.
OF A' THE AIRTS THE WIND CAN BLAW Tune--"Miss Admiral Gordon's Strathspey.
As the winds were coloured like the airts from which they blew, it was believed that they could be influenced by coloured objects.
Burns uses it in the line, "O' a' the airts the wind can blaw".
The more ancient custom of burying the dead so that the influences of the airts might be exercised upon them according to their deserts seems, however, to have been deep-rooted and persistent.
Good stout roads and dry went down the passes to Castle Dark from all airts of Albainn--roads for knight and horse, but free and safe for the gentlest girl ever so lonely.
I'll warrant yon have sung the same to many a poor girl in all airts of the world?
He turned him round about to all airts with his eyes from Cruachan to Cowal, and as far between Knapdale and Lorn as a wanderer has vision, and yonder, down at Kames, was the camp of his clan!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "airts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
