The good woman abridged the period of hesitation by inquiring, "Was ye wanting the gudeman or me, lass?
The raptures of the faithful old creature at seeing Jeanie were equal to her own, as she hastened to assure her, "that baith the gudeman and the beasts had been as weel seen after as she possibly could contrive.
My father argued sair, my mother didna speak, But she lookit in my face till my heart was like to break; Sae they gied him my hand, though my heart was in the sea; And auld Robin Gray was gudeman to me.
They stand peeping over the quarry brink at him, as if he were the 'gudeman of the croft,' Mahoun himself.
James V took his commoner title of "the Gudeman of Ballengeich" from here, when he went abroad on those errantries which all the Stewarts have dearly loved.
Hame cam our gudeman at een, And hame cam he; And there he spied a man Where a man shouldna be.
I aye telled the gudeman ye meant weel to him; but he taks the tout at every bit lippening word.
It is right to add that the gudeman treated such advice with contempt, regarding it as suitable for the effeminacy of towns, but not seriously intended for Drumtochty.
Hame came our gudeman at e'en, And hame came he, And there he saw a man Where a man suldna be.
And mak their shoon as black as slaes, Their stockins white as snaw; It's a' to pleasure our gudeman He likes to see them braw.
But Heaven kens the truth, whilk first came out by the minister's wife, after Sir John and her ain gudeman were baith in the moulds.
The gudeman shook his white head solemnly and sadly, as he looked down the empty thoroughfare.
The gudeman of the Thane scrutinized the traveller's face keenly, but failed to recognize him, and until this moment he thought that no man in the East Neuk was unknown to him; but here his inspection was at fault.
And so the lady lived happily with her gudeman all the rest of her days.
It happened that none of the people belonging to the house were present at the uproar; but hearing the noise, the mistress and the gudemancame rushing ben.
I was then as a lanerly widow, for my gudeman was at the raid of Dunse-hill, and my heart was often sorrowful and sinking wi' a sinful misdooting of Providence, for I had twa wee bairns and but a toom garnel.
By which I discernt, that he had purposely egget her on to urge her gudeman to take the moors for the advantage of me.
For the auld gudeman o' London court She didna care a pin; But she wad send the sodger youth To greet his eldest son.
The old name of this tune is,-- "Whare'll our gudeman lie.
The name “Gudeman o’ Ballengeich,” by which he chose to be called on those occasions, was a designation taken from a hollow or pass that separates the Gowan Hills from the castle rock of Stirling.
The figure at the north-east corner of the building is thought to represent the King disguised as the “Gudeman o’ Ballengeich,” as above the head a lion holds the crown and a tablet inscribed I 5.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gudeman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
