The fire alarm was turned on and the fire laddies were soon on the spot.
The fire laddies of that period would probably look aghast if they could see the implements in use at the present time.
One dreary winter night his sleeping apartment in uppertown was discovered to be on fire, and in a short time the fire laddies appeared in front of his quarters and commenced operations.
The laddies who went because of me called me their godfather, many of them!
And on so hot a day water was a precious thing to men who had been working as the laddies hereabout had worked and labored.
But his blood turns to water in his veins when he sees the big braw laddies from the Hielands come swooping toward him, their kilts flapping and their bayonets shining in whatever light there is.
He had worked hard for them, and gained--and well earned--much fame by the way he struggled with the matter of getting the right sort of pensions for the laddies who were offering their lives.
It is a great sight to watch it in the making; it helps you to understand the victories our laddies have won.
The one exception was the tune that had been so popular in "Three Cheers"--the one called "The Laddies Who Fought and Won.
They were amazingly calm, those laddies at the telephones.
My audience reassembled, and I struck up "The Laddies Who Fought and Won" again.
I wanted to sing for the laddies who were bearing the brunt of the big job over there--while they were bearing it.
I wanted to meet the Highland Brigade, and see the bonnie laddies in their kilts as the Huns saw them--the Huns, who called them the Ladies from Hell, and hated them worse than they hated any troops in the whole British army.
These laddies reminded me of those in the first battery I had seen.
Many of the laddies told me that the thought of being killed did not bother them, but that they did worry a bit about their future in case they went home maimed and helpless.
They came from laddies whom I'd helped to make up their minds that they belonged over yon, where the men were.
As I finished my first song my audience applauded me and cheered me most heartily, and the laddies along the banks of the Scarpe heard them, and came running up to see what was afoot.
And always and everywhere there were the hospitals, full of the laddies who had been brought home from France.
They're fine laddies as laddies go; but for mischief, they're juist born deevils.
He may be French, but he's long-headed, for him and the laddies are that friendly there's naething they woudna do for him.
Your laddies could not let you leave that desk and go out of this room for the last time without telling you that they are grateful, because you have tried to make them scholars, and to make them men.
Didna the Provost tell the laddies the last time he gave the prizes to 'take notice of my freend Bailie MacConachie, and try to be like him?
It's Pottie Lawson gane daft," said the laddies to the pileece.
The laddies paid fine attention, an' ye cudda heard a preen fa'in' when Sandy was speakin'.
It mindit me o' the schule laddies an' their bummers.
The very laddies frae the Sabbath Schule were gaen on the paidmint, whaur there were maist gutters, an' skowf kickin' them at ane anither.
At this the laddies an' lassies clappit their hands like a' that.
Dauvid was as prood's Loocifer aboot the laddies answerin' so smert; but Sandy hardly liked it.
The laddies hurraed the drunkard's liver like onything, an' this gae Sandy time to get his breath, an' to dicht the sweit aff his face.
They gaed back to Stumpie's cellar, an' gin this time there were twenty laddies an' twa pileece roond the door.
They're terribleladdies to blaud (spoil) their claes!
Noo that's a braw thing, whan the laddies and lassies want to learn, and hae questons o' their ain to speir.
I suppose," said Mistress Fraser, as she prepared to take her leave, "that ye canna keep your thumb on the joke aboot the twa laddies and a lassie.
But ye ken yersel' gin the laddies are verra ceevil when they get oot o' schule.
Alick was speechless with laughter, but Mistress Fraser exclaimed with each resounding stroke, "Twa laddies and a lassie!
Twa laddies and a lassie—I declare it's a Queen's bounty!
Sir," he said at length, "laddies are a queer growth; I assure you there was no persuading Lewis that it was not a right and honorable compact.
They are running at the side o' the machine, and the laddies are tossing their bonnets in the air.
The very women is cursing him, and the laddieshas begun to gather stanes.
Two barefooted herd-laddies were on the green fields of adjoining farms.
It'll send mair laddies on to the papers oot o' Thrums,' said Tammas.
With a noble self-sacrifice and a disregard for their own safety which was truly admirable, the brave fire laddies battled with the flames, and exerted themselves to the utmost to prevent the fire from reaching the adjoining buildings.
The laddies 'at's maist ill to get sometimes gangs up in a flame a' at aince, like a bit o' paper.
Other laddies knew of it, and flung it at him until he dared Leeby to let on in public that he and she were related.
I wouldna wonder but what it was some laddies 'at set them at ane another.
Stay till my laddies come in, and hear what account they have to give ye," said the kind-hearted old fisherman, making me sit down once more in the porch in front of his cottage.
I'll send my laddies along the coast, both north and south, and they will make inquiries and bring back any tidings they can obtain; you will have news of the vessel more speedily in that way than any other.
And if the laddies were alive when ye rode awa', wha brocht the news faster than my Sholto could ride--tell me that?
Bittie doggies an' laddies are fair daft aboot the soldiers.
Hundreds of the Heriot laddies were out in the noon recess, playing cricket and leap-frog, when Bobby chased that unlucky cat over the kirkyard wall.
On the outward march, among the many dogs and laddies that had followed the soldiers, Bobby escaped notice.
A number of the olderladdies ran up the climbing street.
Laddies dropped from the wall and hunted over Heriot's Hospital grounds to Lauriston market.
Tammy ventured the opinion that it might be some kind of a cart for lame laddies to ride in.
Before they left the kirkyard the laddies walked down to Auld Jock's grave and patted Bobby on the head, and they went away thoughtfully to their scattered homes.
As swift of foot and as sound of wind as he had ever been, he could tear across country at the heels of a new generation of Heriot laddies and be as fresh as a daisy at nightfall.
He could go no farther himself, but the laddies took up the pursuit, yelling like Highland clans of old in a foray across the border.
Daring things to do swarmed in upon their minds, for Edinburgh laddies live in a city of romantic history, of soldiers, of near-by mountains, and of sea rovings.
A crowd of laddies had only to go inland up this gorge to find wild and tame bloom enough to bury "Jinglin' Geordie" all over again every year.
I mind there was a right fine story about a herd-laddie killin' a big giant, that one o' the laddies telt me once.
He was to teach twa bits o' laddies English and arithmetic, Latin and Greek.
Pettybaw is so far removed from the music-halls that their cheap songs and strident echoes never reach its sylvan shades, and the herd-laddies and plough-boys still sweeten their labours with the old classic melodies.
Yes, they could hear the shouts of the excited fire laddies now, and also catch the sound of galloping horses.
It was now doomed, and the fire laddies confined their efforts to saving any furniture that could be carried out.
Fancy these laddies had been hung too long, or else they were particularly braw.
Do you think that Skipper Mackintosh is going to allow twa laddies like you to go wandering aboot the backwoods when he can guide you?
Which of you two laddies is the one that's danced down the hillside?
My good phosphorus paint and the brains o' these fine laddies has called up the fiery totem.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laddies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
