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Example sentences for "bawbee"

Lexicographically close words:
baulks; baulo; baulor; bault; bauxite; bawbees; bawd; bawdry; bawds; bawdy
  1. Hae than, there's fower an' a bawbee for expenses o' the war.

  2. Or a sma' peddlin' crater that tak's a bawbee mair for rowin' up the pigtail in a foul paper?

  3. I'll be herri't, and he'll no leave himself ae bawbee to rub on anither.

  4. Court to the last bawbee for a' the rental besides.

  5. Here am I toiling and moiling frae morning to night for his advantage; and would ye believe me, Doctor, when I tell you, that he'll no alloo a black bawbee for any needful outlay?

  6. Na, an ye dinna do that, the cost shall be on your own risk, for the deil a plack or bawbee will I pay for them, till I hae a satisfaction that they are as they ought to be.

  7. Have na I come in a' the gait frae the Grippy to do this; and am I no to get a black bawbee for my pains?

  8. The gift of the bawbee would show little self-sacrifice in either you or me!

  9. Sae maybe it's as weel to tell ye, that as far as I ken, ye'll never get a bawbee frae me!

  10. He parted them, and he has the right and duty to bring them together again, though it take the best years of his life and the last bawbee of his money.

  11. Jamie never touched a bawbee of your money.

  12. My heart is knocking at my lips, and I'll be saying what I would give my last bawbee to unsay.

  13. Many's the Sabbath day I have been only a bawbee Christian, when I ought to have put a shilling in the plate.

  14. As for the wages they got, they were that sma', folks used to toss up a bawbee to see whether they wad keep a servant or a canary.

  15. Here the triumphs o' civilisation meet ye at the stair-fit, and three bawbee mornin' rolls can be had efter six o'clock at nicht for a penny.

  16. I can get onywhere I want to gang on the skoosh cars for a bawbee or a penny, but the only place I hae to gang to generally is my wark, and I wad jist as soon walk it, for I'm no in ony hurry.

  17. Duffy's wife took the notion o' a dolman, and told him that seein' there was a bawbee up in the bag o' coal that week she thocht he could very weel afford it.

  18. You will each of you give a silver crown piece; that, and not a bawbee over it.

  19. They couldna imagine a bawbee or a kind word to anybody but themsel's.

  20. If I was only sure o' your suspeecion, Weelyum, I'd invest every bawbee I have in't.

  21. And every bawbee of his fortune has come out of you--the fool makes nothing from his other business--he would have been a pauper if he hadn't met a softie like you that he could do what he liked with.

  22. To think I save a bawbee every time I cross this bonny brig!

  23. Even then he said, "Three bawbees is to you to lay by, and one bawbee to Gavinia no to tell.

  24. James loaned it with an eager willingness, though he was usually very cautious and careful of every bawbee of his hard-earned money.

  25. I shouldna be worth a bawbee at the works.

  26. Every bawbee in my pocket would not have been too much to pay for such a privilege, but it might not be unless the overtures came from the persons in the corner.

  27. For a bawbee I would throw them in her face.

  28. Mr. Bawbee was a Western banker, of Scotch birth, who had made no end of pelf by starting banks and issuing paper money.

  29. Mr. Bawbee being a shrewd, hard-headed Scot, had an opinion of his own.

  30. But they may cash his bills that will; I ken ane that will never advance a bawbee on ony paper that has John Mowbray either on the back or front of it.

  31. I fand a bundle of their bawbee blasphemies in my ain kitchen--But I trow I made a clean house of the packman loon that brought them!

  32. It was the toss of a bawbee whether or not I should apprehend him myself when I saw him, and if I had him here your Grace would be the first to admit my discretion.

  33. The man wears every bawbee virtue he has like a brooch in his bonnet; and now when I think of it, I would not dirty my boots with him.

  34. I was recalled to myself by the voice of the auctioneer: "The kist and its contents will be sold for a guinea and not a bawbee less.

  35. Not a bawbee less than three shellin'; Half a croon.

  36. Not a bawbee less than nine shellin', goin' goin'.

  37. As to that perennial favourite, the bawbee or halfpenny, nothing need be said.

  38. Rejoice in the name of Paramount, and the sound of a bawbee shall be no more heard in the land of my nativity.

  39. New Year oranges, three a penny; bloods, a bawbee each!

  40. It wad but amuse a Scot; he'd no be carin' one way or anither for the bawbee the stamp wad cost.

  41. A laddie like the one I ha' in mind would be seein' the auld folk countin' every bawbee because they must.

  42. Amid delightful Highland scenes and charming Highland people a very pretty love duet is sung in Bawbee Jock.

  43. Bawbee Jock By Amy McLaren Author of "The Yoke of Silence," etc.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bawbee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.