And Nanny Swinton wore her new gown and cockernonie, and blessed her bairn and her bairn's bairn, through tears that were now no more than a sunny shower, the silver mist of the past storm.
For the defence, Bell maintained that all preparations stopped when the clock struck twelve, and even hinted that the bairn had been born on Saturday afternoon.
Briefly it amounted to this: that a bairn born within two hours of midnight on Saturday could not have been ready for christening at the kirk next day without the breaking of the Sabbath.
Last night there were ugly sounds from the quarry of Croup, where the bairn lies buried, and it's not mous (canny) to be out at such a time.
There was Mysie Wilkie's bairn that de'ed doon there i' the Loan a fortnicht syne.
I dinna see hoo Mysie cudna get redd o' her bairn for an' oor noo an' than.
But there wud be plenty bit lassies to gie the bairn a hurl in a coach," said the Tailor.
You are to bear in mind that you are Mr. Alexander's father: give the bairn a chance to carry his name with some responsibility.
I was a bairnjust talking and toddling about the year the Stewart fled and King William came to England.
I've been lying here, gaeing up and down in my thoughts, a bairn again with my grandmither, gaeing up and down the braes and by the glen.
Has not my house been burned, wi' my bairn in the cradle?
D' ye think if the lad-bairn fa's, the sister will do weel?
But he that was minister here then, that's now in a better place, had an opinion that the bairn was only conveyed to fairy-land for a season.
It made an unco noise ower a' this country; the bairn disappeared the very day that Supervisor Kennedy cam by his end.
For he bore not in mind, the bairn of Ecglaf sturdy and strong, that speech he had made, drunk with wine, now this weapon he lent to a stouter swordsman.
When he had got up to her, "hold the child," said she in a fine hearty voice and in a moment she plumped the bairn into Gerard's arms.
I cannot be mistaken in poor Davie's son, though you were a mere bit bairn when I saw you last!
The bairn willna be a hair the waur, and 'tis better so than that he shuld rax a' our craigs.
It was on such a night, he would remember, that he saw the White Lady go through the gates greeting sorely, with a dead bairn in her arms, while water kelpie laughed and splashed in the pools and the witches danced in a ring round Broken Buss.
So Æthelgar’s bairn then all cheered on, Godric to battle: Oft he the dart let go, the death spear wound he on the wikings.
Yon bairn will be a bonny mate for you, Maister Randal," said old Simon Grieve.
They quite forgot the hunger and the hard times, and the old nurse laughed and cried over her bairn that had grown into a tall, strong young man.
When the supper was made a meal of and the horn spoons of the lads still busy, Dan had a word with my uncle, for my aunt was mainly taken up watching each new trick of her bairn these days.
Could Belle not have taken the bairn there at the first go off?
We had unyoked the horses and got astride, and when we came to the gate there was the bonny spaewife carrying a bairn in a tartan shawl.
Never had she seen an unchristened bairn so long about a house!
If her daughter had only married a Cameronian, the bairn would have been baptized within seven days!
One bairn said, that her "mother didna like a sheep's head with horns like these, and wanted it changed for another one.
However, all for a considerable time was quiet, and the ceremony was performed; little Nancy, our niece, handing the bairn upon my arm to receive its name.
Ere the sun sets this night every woman and bairn now alive in Bute shall be brought to the abbey, and they shall live here, guarded by a band of our best men-at-arms.
But at last they convinced him the bairn was just imagination, and Wanton Wully Oliver spat on his hands and grasped the rope, and so it happened that the morning bell on the New Year's day on which my story opens was twice rung.
Here's that bairn on his way from Liverpool his lee-lone, and not a body with him!
The Baron was fairly satisfied, and muttered that if the bairn was fit only for a shaveling, it might be all right.
It was plain that Grisell was in no state to be taken on a journey, and her mother went grumbling down the stair at the unchancy bairn always doing scathe.
She, good soul, when the first surprise was over, said "she hardly kenned her bairn in sic a fine gentleman.
My poor bairn had been landed in Scotland without a penny in her pocket, and was begging her way to Manchester, to throw herself at our feet, when Providence directed her to our door.
It was a remarkably cold and gousty night, and a poor wandering woman came to our door, with a bairn at her breast, and another on her back, and begging a morsel, and a shelter for herself and infants.
I, as I saw the letter shake in his hand, "is my bairn dead?
I ne'er heard tell the like o't; to hae the bairn kirsened an' its grandfather deein!
Sorra tak me if ane wadnae think, to hear ye, this was the first bairn that e'er was born!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bairn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bairn; cherub; child; chit; darling; innocent; kid; kitten; lamb; mite; offspring; tot
