And how will your conscience answer one day for carrying so many bonny lasses to barter modesty for conceit and levity at the metropolitan Vanity Fair?
The bonny lasses made their adieus more modestly, and more than one, it was said, would have given her best brooch to be certain that it was upon her that his eye last rested as he turned towards the road.
I never had any to speak of, and these bonnysparklers pluck at the heart o' me.
The others for their gay gaudery,--the bonny reid and blue o' them.
The king happenin to go into the room that he usually occupied in the Palace o' Scone ae mornin earlier than ordinar, wha does he fin sortin't oot but a bit bonny lassie o' a chaumermaid.
Why, it's bonny Jean Cameron that was when I went away.
Just twa as bonny bits o' lassocks as ane wad wish to see; but I think they want the complexion--they haena the blume o' our kilted heather trampers.
I dressed the two bonny orphans in the best mourning at my own cost, and kept them in the manse till we could get an answer from their uncle, to whom I sent their father's letter.
Eh, sir, what for sud ye be in sic a hurry to sleep awa' the bonny daylicht?
Bonny Jocky blithe and free; Won her heart right merrily; At church she no more frowning cried.
Yes, neighbour Blinkhoolie's garden is a pleasant rendezvous, and you are of the age when lads look after a bonny lass with one eye, and a dainty plum with another.
Dan likes this one better, and the other may be very nice in print but it's too rich to be wholesome, and it costs a bonny penny.
New Year's Day here is no' like New Year's Day in the bonny isle of Colonsay.
Give them that in plenty and you'll see a bonny display of green and no' much blossom.
Bonny it was, in one sense at least, for a lovelier farm there is not on the whole of the wide surface of the Empire State.
He has loupen on thebonny grey, He rade the right gate and the ready; I trow he would neither stint nor stay, For he was seeking his bonny ladye.
Gar saddle me the bonny black, Gar saddle sune, and make him ready; For I will down the Gatehope-Slack, And all to see my bonny ladye.
And see not ye that bonny road, That winds about the fernie brae?
He has ta'en the ford at that stream tail; I wot he swam both strong and steady; But the stream was broad, and his strength did fail, And he never saw his bonny ladye!
The side was stey, and the bottom deep, Frae bank to brae the water pouring; And the bonny grey mare did sweat for fear, For she heard the water-kelpy roaring.
Why did Jane Coop fear as the others feared, and why did her bonny face go suddenly white?
She clutched her bonny curls in both hands and pressed herself hard to the ground, longing that it should open and swallow her up.
Nearly five feet of hard stone and a biggish brook in front was no small feat, they say, for a tired horse, even with bonny Kate Lowry on his back.
Following close upon the perusal of such a book, and the feelings awakened by it, I was pleased beyond measure to find myself possessed of a few days of leisure, and once more in the bonny border land of Wales.
And this is our sweet little Flo, A bonnyyoung beauty in bearskin!
I'd soon pack up a carpet-bag, And gladly sail beneath the flag, Of bonny Tarpauline!
Comes, blushing with a rare unconscious grace, The bonniest of England's bonny girls!
The sauciest of bonny belles, In broidered coat with white lappels; Her ample tresses one descries Are closely plaited, pig-tail-wise.
The bonny laughing Light Brigade, Still on the King's Road gaily canter!
Boney bwoy" is not a local living skeleton, but a native from Bonny River.
Take any man, educated or not, and place him on Bonny or Forcados River in the wet season on a Sunday--Bonny for choice.
Five times have I been now in Bonny River and I like it.
While your eyes are drinking in the characteristics of Bonny scenery you notice a peculiar smell--an intensification of that smell you noticed when nearing Bonny, in the evening, out at sea.
Beneath and between you and them lie the rotting mud waters of Bonny River, and away up and down river, miles of rotting mud waters fringed with walls of rotting mud mangrove-swamp.
He was evidently hurt and said, "Bonny was a nice place when you got used to it," and went on to discourse on the last epidemic here, when nine men out of the resident eleven died in about ten days from yellow fever.
The one in Bonny has a complete language to itself, and there is one in Duke Town so powerful that should you desire the death of any person you have only to go and name him before it.
But it wuld haif saften'd the dullest wicht, If ae moment that wicht might see Her bonnybreast o' the purest snaw, That heavit wi' luve sae tenderlie.
If ony culd luke and safely see Her dimplit cheek, and her bonny red mou, Nor seek to sip the dew frae her lip, A lifeless lump was he, I trow.
On fair Clydeside thair wonnit ane dame, Ane dame of wondrous courtesie, An' bonny was the kindly flame That stremit frae her saft blue e'e.
Tis for the children--the children i' horspitals--a bonny song for them to sleepit on.
A canna make music mair bonny nor that--a canna," he said; and he set about searching through the scraps of his memory for what music he did know.
At the moment when our Jacobite hearts were stung to deep, though fleeting resentment, we had formed a thought form, powerful enough to reach the spirit of Bonny Prince Charlie on "the other side.
Had I lived during the '45 I would have worn the white cockade, and parted with my last "shift" for the love of Bonny Prince Charlie.
