Now stay, daughter, your bour within, While I gae parley wi my son.
Now stay, daughter, your bour within, While I gae parley wi' my son.
The "Bour Tree" or Elder (Sambucus) has been the centre of a whole series of extraordinary and remarkable superstitions.
XIV O four-and-twenty valiant knights Were set the Queen to guard; And four stood aye at herbour door, To keep both watch and ward.
II ‘Gie corn unto my horse, mither, Gie meat unto my man; For I maun gang to Margaret’s bour Before the nicht comes on.
LX ‘Now stay here, daughter, your bour within, Till I gae parley with my son.
VII ‘O though the nicht were ever sae dark, Or the wind blew never sae cauld, I will be in my Margaret’s bour Before twa hours be tald.
Ann had a lit-tle gar-den of her own, and she had made an ar-bour in it.
Avore they took away our work, they ought To meäke us up the bread our leäbour bought.
When he cam to his lady's bour door He stude a little forbye, 30 And there he heard a fou fause knight Tempting his gay ladye.
Of her young bairn she's never be lighter, 15 Nor in her bour to shine the brighter: But she sall die, and turn to clay, And you sall wed another may.
And wha has ta'en down that bush o' woodbine, That hung between her bour and mine?
O four and twenty valiant knights Were set the queen to guard; And four stood aye at her bour door, To keep both watch and ward.
Now stay, daughter, your bour within, "While I gae parley wi' my son.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.