Merely to show that in this ploy the royal prerogative is not brought into play; it is already settled that when I meet the king, I am defeated.
In any ploy with the ladies," he said, "your majesty has the weight of an ermine cloak in your favour, and we all know how the lassies like millinery.
My head's off if this ploy miscarries, as you've just told me, and my throat's cut if I withdraw from the secret conclave.
It's weel kenned that Maister Gilbert Burnet, when he gets a ploy intil his heid, never stops till he wins his purpose; so he sets himsel' to mak love to the lass.
There will be none to expect a ploy that night, for it will be the night that Hugh McBride will be married on the English lady, and that will be a diversion.
I will haf forgotten what ploy that was--I was aalways fighting.
In these night trakings in the hills I learned the shape of every stunted bush and tree, and the place of every rock on either hand, and many's the droll ploy I came into.
John McCook would be telling me there will be a ploy that night at the Cleiteadh mor," said the lass; "the folk will have a cargo ready.
We had many's the ploy in the old days," says he, "and wild nights too.
But at least I ken o' ae love ploy that Mistress Lindesay is engaged in, or your birses wadna be so ready to stand on end, my bonny man.
But it was a ploy of their own, which they desired to finish that they might go trig and point-device to the Earl's weapon-showing to-morrow on the braes of Balmaghie.
I cried, when he had told me of a ploy that my Lady Castlemaine and my pretty Mistress Stuart had carried through together--the point of which was that these two quipsome dames were wedded, like man and wife, and eke bedded before the Court.
I argued with him that it was the maddest ploy thus to go back.
She said, 'Watna grand ploy it wad be gin this yin were to die as weel!
His son Sandie was my age to a year, and many a ploy we had together; there was the jackdaw's nest in the ivy on the old tower we harried together," and the General could only indicate the delightful risk of the exploit.
But then again I minded that in his times of distress, after a fight or when he had been in some ploy for which he dared not face his father, Alec had made himself a cave among the hay or corn in the end of the barn.
It was my own Jamie who brought me word of the ill-contrived ploy that was in the wind.
She had to come to me before Annapla was aboot, for Annapla's no' in this part o' the ploy at all.
I would have thought the duty of keeping down a ploy of that kind would have been congenial to your own folk," said Elchies, drenching his nostrils vulgarly with macabaw.
To that much at least I can help you, though in the other affair I'm neutral in spite of my interest in any ploy of the kind.
A time or twa like this, and ye'll hae to plant taties in the front yaird—ye will hae to pay soundly for your ploy at this rate, my man.
The wild thought of a yet untried ploy surged up in Cleg's mind.
He might have added that sometimes, as in one great ploy yet to be described, he had been both teacher and friend to Miss Celie Tennant.
But it wad be some deevilich ploy o' their ain they wad be efter: it's little the likes o' them wad heed sic auld warld tales.
As lang's they haud their han's frae what doesna belang to them, I dinna min' a bit ploy noo and than.
