Bonnie wee thing, cannie wee thing, Lovely wee thing, wert thou mine, I wad wear thee in my bosom, Lest my jewel I should tine.
Stothard painted a clever little picture from this characteristic ditty: the cannie wife, it was evident, saw in Robin's palm something which tickled her, and a curious intelligence sparkled in the eyes of her gossips.
Some tentie rin a cannie errand to a neebor town, some, heedful, run on a quiet errand to a neighboring town.
That holiday cruise on board the good steamship Cannie Donia!
He went to the cannie wife, got her up behind him, and, to her terror and dismay, plunged again into the torrent.
When you think of me, let it be kindly, for from this night out you will never see the Cannie Soogah more.
At this moment M'Carthy shouted out in loud and powerful tones--"The Cannie Soogah!
As for myself, I sometimes think it is the Cannie Soogah and sometimes that it is not.
The 'Cannie Soogah,' you know, is the Irish for Jolly Pedlar, and a right jolly pedlar your worthy father was once in his days.
A body of about a thousand men now made their appearance, every one of them personally devoted to the Cannie Soogah; and brought there for the humane purpose, if possible, of saving Purcel and his sons that night.
I often tell that to Cannie the Dandie Dinmont terrier, who fell to our lot in the division of the showman’s dogs.
The brute’s in there,” hissed Cannie between the two broken-off teeth, knocked out by the amiable Fifeson.
Gringo, Walter Scott, and Cannie snapped at good King Harry, and told him that the English aristocracy were as sober as any class of people.
Good King Harry was there, andCannie and Czarina, all barking and jumping with excitement and pleasure.
Cannie was on his hind legs peering into the car, and King Harry was up on the seat, snuffing and blowing over a pair of driving gloves.
He nosed to and fro, and Cannie said impatiently, “I tell ye, man, he crossed the turnip field.
Was it for this, wi' cannie care, Thou bure the Bard through many a shire?
Bonie wee thing, cannie wee thing, Lovely wee thing, wert thou mine, I wad wear thee in my bosom, Lest my jewel it should tine.
The cannie Scot, however, never made his haggis from anything belonging to the pig.
But perhaps the champion effort of all was when I was sojourning in the good city of Carlisle--known to its inhabitants by the pet name of "Cannie Carle.
Cannie folk, even lassies, can ken mair than they always tell,' said the knight of Glenuskie.
Petronelle's opinion, she shook her head, and said the Sire Dauphin was a strange ower cannie chiel, and advised that Maitre Jaques Coeur should be consulted.
It was painful to leave such an agreeable companion, but then what a relief it was to escape from the cannie Scots!
I can't, for the life of me, see what use Cannie could be to me.
I have to take Marian to the dentist; but Cannie has not seen the sea yet, except at a distance, and you both ought to have a good exercise in the fresh air, for I am almost sure it will rain by to-morrow.
If Mrs. Gray herself was present on these occasions, Cannie did pretty well; for she invariably got behind her cousin or beside her, made no attempt to talk, and just amused herself by watching what went on.
If it be I, as I believe it be," was the tenor of her thought, as of the old woman in the nursery rhyme; only Cannie had no little dog at hand to help her to a realization of her own identity.
Cannie found it absorbingly interesting, and even Mr. Gray laid aside his newspaper and listened to the very end.
Aunt Myra, who discouraged the practice of reading for girls as unfitting them for any sort of useful work, used to declare that the very sight of a book made Cannie deaf and blind and dumb.
Mrs. Gray pitiedCannie very much, and had tried various methods to shake her out of her shyness and teach her confidence in herself.
Georgie, Cannie has agreed to take the care of all the outside flower-boxes in future.
People thought that she was out of humor or troubled about something, and set her down as dull and unattractive; and with a natural reaction, Cannie felt that they did not like her, and that made her more uncomfortable than ever.
William Somerville The Bonnie Wee Thing Bonnie wee thing, cannie wee thing, Lovely wee thing, wast thou mine, I wad wear thee in my bosom, Lest my jewel I should tine.
A' admit that England micht hae dune the job; it's no cannie stravagin' yon wy frae place tae place, but Drums never complained tae me as if he hed been nippit in the Sooth.
Faigs, it's nocannie to be muckle wi' the body, for the Deil and Donald seem never separate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
