Gin it hadna been him I'd hae said it was a bairn, an' he was blate ower 't.
Ye're no blate to speak that gate til a gentleman far less a minister.
Saw na ye hoo she was e'en ower blateto forgather wi' the neighbours, an' gaed creepin' hame afore the kirk wad skell?
Kate, toasting bread at the fire, turned round and felt a little blate herself, but smiled at her, such a fine expansive smile, it was bound to put the child at ease.
No longer blate young lads scraped with their feet uneasily in the sawdust of P.
My feth, ye're no blate to speak o' yer sovereign in thae disrespectfu' terms.
Gin he was a loon, he wadna luik like a blate lass, ony gait, Betty.
But gin that wasna a quean, ye canna deny but she luikit unco like ane, and no a blate (bashful) ane eyther.
You are my great blate bold son, you know, from the moors of Mearns, and I will be wae, wae, to think of you travelling all round Europe without a friend of your own country to exchange a word with.
I wadna need to beblate at this tred, I'm tellin' ye.
Thither he directed his course, the abbey towers serving him for her sign, and the moonlight and running river were guides to her door, at the which he was not blate in chapping.
