Neither of the bairns should go out of her house on such a day!
I wish my wife and bairns may be all well at hame; For the buttons on my waistcoat they winna bide on.
And whare's thebairns o this house, that ca me Lamkin?
And there's many and many a lonely heart beside mine ma Corner House bairns have made to rejoice.
Forsooth never Hildeburh needed to hery The troth of the Eotens; she all unsinning Was lorne of her lief ones in that play of the linden, Her bairns and her brethren, by fate there they fell Spear-wounded.
The guest from the garths; he on getting of vengeance Of harms thought more greatly than of the sea's highway, If he but a wrath-mote might yet be a-wending 1140 Where the bairns of the Eotens might he still remember.
Long was he contemned, While the bairns of the Geats naught told him for good, Nor him on the mead-bench worthy of mickle The lord of the war-hosts would be a-making.
But none liveth so wise Of the bairns of mankind, that the bottom may know.
Then round the howe rode the deer of the battle, The bairns of the athelings, twelve were they in all.
Folk have dee'd sinsyne and been buried, and are forgotten, and bairns been born and got merrit and got bairns o' their ain.
The gaunt weaver was dry-nurse at Cauldstaneslap, and the bairns loved him dearly.
But I maun speak to this gabbling skyte too, for bairns and fules speak at the Cross what they hear at the ingle-side.
Folk may just make a page o' their ain age, and serve themsells till their bairns grow up, and gang their ain errands for Andrew.
That wad be a dreadfu' thing, for ye ken I ne'er could bide bairns a' my days.
Gie not her bairns sic deadly paiks, Nor be sae rude, Wi' firelock or Lochaber axe, As spill their bluid.
I don’t hold with this Frenchy law that says all the bairns must share and share alike.
Who will mind t' bairns when their mother is dead?
And mine bairns hae been crining too, mon," replied his neighbour.
I wonder how Queen Carline (if her name be Carline) wad hae liked to hae had ane o' her ain bairns in sic a venture?
Take both the bairns away, and watch over them as though they were lambs of the fold--and so they are lambs of His fold," finished the old man.
And my two bairns have a new and highly poetic occupation.
My twobairns had been free of those illnesses and infections which come to the city child, and I was glad enough to remember it.
The newbairns would never be like the old bairns, and it would na be fair.
Had you a wife and bairns of your own," said the woman, "you might learn some day that a parent's happiest time is when her children are young.
If I were not an old runt of a bachelor, it would be my first thought to give my women and bairns safety.
The gentry are no doubt philosophers enough to bring up theirbairns like sheep to the slaughter, and dispatch them as cadies to Bengal and the Cape of Good Hope, as soon as they are grown up; when, lo and behold!
The Deacon had sat down upon it without thinking; and the poor animal, that our neighbours' bairns used to play with, and be so fond of, was crushed out of life without a cheep.
It's the way o' women, and she's happier when she gives up the gairdening and sets to rear bairns instead.
So the bairnsjust bided their time and had it out in a natural way, and you never saw such sichts they were.
Ye wudna gie him up, and ye did what nae ither cud for him, an' a've ma man the day, and the bairns hae their father.
What scunnered me wes the wy the bairns were ta'en in wi' him.
When Bell Baxter saw Saunders alive, and the coffin of the doctor that saved him on her man's shoulder, she bowed her head on the dyke, and the bairns in the village made such a wail for him they loved that the men nearly disgraced themselves.
In from the hill the men and the women came, weary-legged, and the bairns nodded at their heels.
The women and bairns and the old folks stood in a great crowd behind the Cornal's horse.
Doors drummed, windows screeched in their cases, women's voices went from land to land, and the laugh and cry of bairnsnew roused from the hot toss of dreams.
Glen Shie are women andbairns living their own day's life, and the crack will be blithe in the sheilings to come, for all your quarrels.
The bairns in the back-land looked up and laughed.
The women themselves would be there, with the bairns whining on their backs.
Widows grat on the brae-sides and starved with their bairns for the bere and oat that were burned.
There was a break in Dol' Dubh's music, and high over the big town rang the Cornal's voice, starting the bairns in their sleep and setting them up and screaming.
A weary season fell on Half Town, and the very bairns dwined at the breast for a change of fortune.
They did not dare to question him as to the change that had come over him, or whither he was going; for at all times his mildest answer to all inquiries was, that "fools and bairns should never see things half done.
While his wife was speakin to him, leavin the bairns in his charge, Tam never raised his head, but continued delvin awa wi' great assiduity.
Ah've only one unsatisfied desire, an' that is te know that me three bairns hev giv'n their hearts te God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bairns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
