Deil gien he had bursten himsel'--the auld heelan' sholt!
For an auld man ye hae killed enew for ae nicht," said Malcolm, and gently took the knife from his trembling hand.
Ow, the auld warlock, or whatever it may be 'at hauds a reemish (romage) there.
There's naebody kens the smeddum in an auld hielan' man!
It was impossible for two down-cast and broken-hearted warriors to be more uplifted at any incident than Will Laidlaw and I were, at discovering that the boy was safe; and even auld Will Nicol began to recover some confidence.
Auld Will Nicol roared out, "For Christ's sake, master, stop!
I thought sae muckle o' my auld father, that I couldna haud my tongue nae langer, and that was the first word I ever spake to the warden in my life.
It is needless to tell how frankly auld Will was forgiven.
Jock to himsel: "What though I should show the auld niggard a sample?
Scots laird, an auld crabbit loun like that, to ride in through your ranks and out through your ranks, as they were files o' thistles?
I say my mother, auld Effy Blakely of the Peatstacknowe.
But there's an auld saying, wha wad sit i' Rome and strive wi' the pope?
I wish yon auld houses o' the mill may be safe aneuch; they stand sair exposed.
An ye be spared ye'll be a man when auld Will Laidlaw's head is laid i' the grave.
Should old acquaintance be forgot And the days of Auld Lang Syne?
We'll have one more night of it, for the sake of Auld Lang Syne, and start at daylight in the morning.
On returning to Rome after a considerable absence--a year or so--a few things have to be done for the sake of auld lang syne ere one may again feel at home.
Ghostly Japan," written in 1899, was dedicated to Mrs. Alice von Behrens for auld lang syne.
Or again, in his description of a chance hearing of the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" by Adelina Patti.
Here there is no reference to "Auld Lang Syne," nor is there a touch of sentiment from beginning to end.
I ken auld Lance Lovelace, an' those that bide wi' him.
Aweel, no vaquero of auld Lance Lovelace can come sparkin' wi' ma lass.
Until ye take heed of an auld wife's advice and find a new housekeeper.
William Auld had put up with my permission on the occasion of his last visit, a box which I never saw a logger pass without patronising if he noticed it.
I rowed Mr. Auld over to his launch and wished him good-bye, receiving from his kindly old hands a copy of The Northern Examiner, dated three days after I had left Brammerton.
Mr. Auld was telling some interesting story and he had the old man in the best of humours.
William Auld called and left a jar containing some hideous little leeches in water.
Mr. Auld injected some morphine through Jake's arm in order to give his brain the rest that it evidently sorely needed.
William Auld was getting through his lecture to Andrew.
Mr. Auld was a medical missionary, and he confirmed what I had feared.
William Auld positively chuckled as he thought of it.
William Auld had dinner with me, then he started out in his launch for Clark's ranch.
Mr. Auld came during the early afternoon of that Sunday.
Andrew then started in to tell Mr. Auld of the method he had adopted in regard to the disposition of his output of eggs, and that gave me just the opportunity I wanted.
And when he came to the King's chamber, He loutit on his knee, "O what may be your gracious will Wi' an auld frail man like me?
Then up and spak an auld French lord, Was sitting beneath his knee, "It is the Queen o' braid England That's come across the sea.
Gae, kill the eerock in the yard, The auld sow in the sty, And bake for her the brockit calf, But and the puddock-pie!
And he has met wi' the auld harper; O but his een were reid; And the bizzing o' a swarm o' bees Was singing in his heid.
The diel may gang for Lamartine, And flee away wi' auld Hugo, For a better minstrel than them baith Within this very toun I know.
And aye they birlit at the wine, And drank richt merrilie, Till the auld cock crawed in the castle-yard, And the abbey bell struck three.
Is that your Queen, my Lord," she said, "That auld and buirdly dame?
Dour an' din he was, wi' ae girn like th' auld hornie.
Tis a braw sight, Richard," said he, "but no sae bonnie as auld Scotland.
He left the room amid three cheers and the singing of "Auld Lang Syne.
I hae read auld John Milton ower an' ower, though I dinna believe the half o't; but, oh!
Robbie Burns cud do't in sang efter sang; but maybe this epitaph was a' that auld Martin was able to mak'.
I gaed to see an auld Christian, whase body an' brain are nigh worn oot.
Scho flang her harp on that auld tree, (The wynd pruvis aye ane harpir gude.
Her father was vexed and her mother was wae, But pensive and silent was auld Robin Gray; He wandered his lane, and his face it grew lean, Like the side of a brae where the torrent had been.
On the same stair with the Maxwells lived the Countess Anne of Balcarres, mother of eleven children, the eldest of whom wrote "Auld Robin Gray.
As soon as one comes to know Edinburgh, he feels a gratitude to that old gentleman of Fife who is said to have invented the affectionate phrase "Auld Reekie.
Nowhere are Auld Reekie's antitheses of new and old more emphasized than in the Cowgate.
Ye're welcome to walk up, if ye like to see what their dwellin's waur like in the auld time.
It is but a few steps from this monument down to a spot on the "banks o' bonnie Doon," from which is a fine view of the "auld brig.
He was a heepocritical auld Radical, if ye knows him," he said angrily.
I have spoken of the phrase "Auld langsyne," and of other words, which may be compared in their Anglican and Scottish form.
The rending o' rocks and the pu'in' doun o' auld houses.
Auld could not resist giving him his answer, and telling him to go about his business.
It was indeed a charming letter, and how it took me back to the days of "Auld lang Syne!
Should auldacquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne?
Benjamin Franklin Should auldacquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?
A lassie, a dog, And an auld rowan tree, The mair that you thwacks 'em, The better they be!
Published 1827 "Late, late yestreen I saw the new moone Wi' the auld moone in hir arme.
It is now called the "Auld House," and, as in many other instances, its old prestige departed with its old name.
Auld preceded Beckley in the old house at the head of Front street, above mentioned.
Thomas Auld and Mrs. Lucretia at once decided on my return to Baltimore.
Wise as Mr. Auld was, he evidently underrated my comprehension, and had little idea of the use to which I was capable of putting{115} the impressive lesson he was giving to his wife.
Auld sent off to Baltimore, making his brother Hugh welcome to her services.
At first, Mrs. Auld evidently regarded me simply as a child, like any other child; she had not come to regard me as property.
Auld would now show himself in a nobler light than I had ever before seen him.
Auld would emancipate me, at the end of the time indicated.
Auld acquainted with the atrocious cruelty of his brother Covey, and beseech him to get me another master?
Auld had come through," and it was for me to hope for the best.
We're at the auld wark o' the marches again, Jock o' Dawston Cleugh and me.
But ye'll no forget her, and ye'll gar big up the auld wa's for her sake?
We wad just take the auldgate as readily, if it werena for the law.
I canna think it o' sae douce a lad; na, na, this is just some o' your auld skits.
But eh, as I wuss auld Sherra Pleydell was to the fore here!
But ye are a' altered from the gudeauld rules, and no wonder that you scour the cramp-ring and trine to the cheat sae often.
Frank Kennedy will show you the penalties in the act, and ye ken yoursell they used to put their run goods into the Auld Place of Ellangowan up by there.
One might think auld Jamie back again, with the whack o' the hammer and the blithe song, though the voice ben't so crackit like as th' auld one.
I may take to th' auld bench, and e'en get my father's place among ye in time, so I be good enough.
His father had been the village cobbler, and when he died the folks said: "Who'll mend our shoes now, and auld Jamie gone?
I'd a deal rather you'd stick to the bench, like yourauld father.
Are ye ganging to the fair, Oliver, ye lonesome auld dog?
Wad I be for a crack wi’ the tawse, or the knuckle-end of the auld crab-stick at hame, eh!
They winna do that,” said the keeper; “dinna fash your auld head with sic notions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "auld" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ageless; ancient; antique; dateless; elderly; hoary; immemorial; old; timeless; venerable
Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words: auld lang; auld wife
