So we just set a stout heart to a stiff brae (hill), and began the march.
Old King came out booted and cloaked, his staff in his hand, battled to the door and was swept up the brae upon the gale.
She could lift a heifer into a cart, and had once, being dared to it, carried Andrew King up the braein her arms.
On the Sunday, besides the tent at the foot of the brae above described, where the sacrament was dispensed, other two tents were erected.
I don't know as I've thought a brae lot about it," said Zack.
I've asked Scotchmen even, and I'm a brae old man now.
That brae was as deserted as the country roads, except where children had escaped from their mothers to wade in it.
Could your police have come down that brae alone to-night?
Green Brae still shudders when I tell him that my first impulse was to leave the pillow-slip unopened.
To flit from the Tanage brae to Haggart's road was to change one's friends.
You're wondering how the sojers has come to a stop at the tap o' the brae instead o' marching on the town.
I know who was the first woman on the Marywell brae to hear the horn, and how she woke her husband, and who heard it first at the Denhead and the Tenements, with what they immediately said and did.
We have to bring it up to Braeby water, then cart it across the isthmus, and bring it to my house in boats.
Adie, Mr. Inkster at Brae and to the firm of Anderson at Hillswick.
SIR,-You will perhaps allow me to supplement the evidence gave atBrae the other day by a few notes.
When the Commissioner asked me at Brae if I had known men lose their independence by coming in debt, or something like that, I had this class in my mind, and I was puzzled what to say.
Could you sell them at Mossbank or at Brae if you could get a better price there?
And then for a short time they talked of Oxford and the boat-race; and then of Ventnor, which Malcolm knew well--he had even spent an evening at Red Brae when the Godfreys were staying there.
Off went Yaspard, and soon the Harrisons and Mitchell boys were helping him to convey some large stones to the brae which Fred had chosen.
He fastened up his boat, took his sister's hand, and ran quickly up the brae to his home.
And with the aid of the pebbles which plentifully strewed the brae face, he afforded the young man of the straw some of the finest and most interesting active exercise in getting out of the way he had had for many years.
As the pair came slowly up the brae they had been talking about the children, whom they could see dragging on before them weary-foot, sick with pain and weariness.
And there on thebrae face was the light of the distant signal shining like a star in the midst of the brightening sky of morn.
They sat together on the brae in the sun, and her hand remained in his keeping.
When she succeeded the scene came back to her, she felt again as she had when he had been standing there beside her on the brae overlooking the racing water.
Down the Tanage brae and up the Brae-head they skurried, half a hundred avenging spirits in pursuit.
I had turned back to bear her company, and we were now come near the head of the brae above Dean village.
There is just where you are wrong," said I; "for I was as uncouth as a sea-fish upon the braeof a mountain.
Our road lies up the brae face," and turning I discovered that, in my dreams, instead of following the minister I was walking obliquely away from him.
At Perth he made inquiries, we are told, "as to the whereabouts of the burn-brae on which be the graves of Bessy Bell and Mary Gray.
As we set breast to the brae and came to the top of the little hill, I stumbled over something white and soft lying behind a heather bush.
We had been thus walking for some while, bearing breast to the brae all the time, and leaning forward even as a horse leans to its collar.
And as I saw them ride over the brae with thirty Glenkens blue bonnets at their tail, I knew that I was looking upon the beginning of the ruin of our house.
As we came to the foot of the brae we found Gib Macaterick stelled up against the dyke, with his hands bound and a paper in his teeth--a printed copy of the Covenant.
Then we held up the brae that is called the Gadlach, where is the best road over the burn of Palscaig, and so up into the great wide valley through which runs the Eglin Lane.
A man on the outskirts of the town tried to dissuade us from going that way; there was such a brae to be climbed, he said.
For instance, I was gaen up thebrae juist the ither nicht, an' the kirk offisher was stanin' at the kirk door.
Sandy took me up thebrae a bit, an' I got set doon on the girss wi' Nathan aside me.
She jist looks out o' the window an' doon the braeto the pit.
Immediately he realized how helpless he was alone, so he went back to the boy and hurried him down the brae and out to where some other men were at work.
Mag flew down the brae to the pit almost running, while Leebie and other neighbors looked after her with a strange dread at their hearts.
I was coming round the howe o' the brae where the road turns aff to the Milton, when I met that lad.
I therefore agree with Mr. Brae that the 40th Conclusion would have done better for Part iv.
I see no reason for supposing this proposition to be an interpolation, as Mr. Brae suggests.
Mr. Brae has brought to bear upon his work much skill and knowledge, and has investigated many points with much patience, minuteness, and critical ability.
Mr. Brae quotes the very passage to which Chaucer refers, which I here quote from the edition of 1482, as described in my note to l.
Late copies have lyne; for which Mr. Brae suggested degre.
Mr. Brae well calls attention here to the absurd errors in the printed copies.
Mr. Brae has made considerable use of it, and gives, in his preface, a careful and interesting account of it.
But it may be objected, as Mr. Brae has fairly objected, that Conclusion 40 itself ought to belong to Part iv.
An exciting time came when at the age of seven or eight years I left the auld Davel Brae school for the grammar school.
He went only a short distance, however, and turned us over to the care of the two biggest scholars, who led us to the top of the Brae and then left us to scurry home and dash into the door like pursued squirrels diving into their holes.
On the Davel Brae battleground we often managed to bring on something like real war, greatly more exciting than personal combat.
We had to go up a hill called the Davel Brae that lay between the schoolhouse and the main street.
Mony a lump o' rock an' castel thegither has rowed doon the brae upon a' sides, an' the ruins may weel hae filled up the gully at last.
And they'll take all we can let 'em have, for they've a mortal sight of folk up there at Brae Wood.
I am the daughter of Mr. Falconer, of the Villa atBrae Wood.
Jason's just been telling me that the new folks up at Brae Wood have been sending all round the place for eggs and butter and cream and fowls, and Jason says that he can get so much better prices from them than from Bryndermere.
