Then wi his speir he turn'd hir owr, O gin hir face was wan!
Willeva and Speir Edom are small districts in Bewcastledale, through which also the Hartlie-burn takes its course.
Still flourishing the auld pear tree The bairnies liked to see, And oh, how aften did they speir When ripe they a' wad be!
Ene with this instantly list not ces Forto recontyr Turnus in the pres, 10 And hys big speir apoun hym schakis he, Quhilk semyt rude and squar as ony tre; And with a bald and bustuus breist thus spak: Quhat menys this langsum delay ȝhe mak?
Speir quhat he beildis, or how that he dar dwell Amang a pepill salbe hys ennemys fell.
You want me tospeir in your name whether she'll have you, do you?
Ye wad steal the pocks frae an auld wife, and syne speirwhere she got them.
Do your turn weel, and nane will speir what time ye took.
He's no lang deid neither, or ye could speir at himsel'.
I would like fine to see yon French nobleman, Davie; and I daresay you could find an employ to yoursel, and that would be to speir at the lassie for some news o' your affair.
As ye gae up by yon hillside, Speir in for bonie Bessy; She'll gie ye a beck, and bid ye light, And handsomely address ye.
And there it is, a silken sarke, Your ain hand sewd the sleive; Ye maun gae speik to Gill Morice; Speirnae bauld barons leave.
Speir made tests that satisfied him that she ate no more than she pretended to, and in the aggregate it had not, in all these years, amounted to more than the amount eaten at a single meal by a healthy man.
Speir reported as saying, in answer to a question as to her having lived fourteen years without food: "'Yes, she became my patient in 1864.
I gaed to the manse to speir at Jean what was wrang, but I'm thinking I telled her mair than she could tell me.
But what I want to speir at you is, can I gang down to the Tenements for a minute?
I humbly speir your forgiveness, sir," she said, "and you micht bide just a wee yet.
Speir at Robert Bruce's chop, and they'll direc ye to whaur I bide.
And she had a hantle to speir at me aboot; and it took a' the knowledge I had o' buiks in general to answer her questions.
I'm gaein' ower the water to speir efter Alec," was the excusatory rejoinder.
I think that's young Robert Bruce been to Clippenstrae to speir efter me.
Sae as sune's I cud win awa', I cam' to speir efter him mysel'.
Ye hae been to them baith, and I wad hae thocht ye wad hae kent better nor to speir sic a question," answered Thomas.
Jist creep ower to Cadger there, and speir gin he kens Juno.
And she had sae muckle to say and speir aboot, that at last we had to tak doon buiks, and I had to clear a neuk o' the table.
A' the Glen cam up tae speir for him, and say a cheery word tae their scholar.
I have also some verses he gave me made on thesse 2 fellows thats keips centry, as it were, just as ye come in at the garden door; their menacing face is of timber; all the rest with their speir is artificially cut out of bush.
A man may speir at me what does the ringing of the bells to the thunder.
I would like fine to see yon French nobleman, Davie; and I daresay you could find an employ to yoursel', and that would be to speirat the lassie for some news of your affair.
He's no' lang deid neither, or ye could speir at himsel'.
I seen at once that what frightened them was Lean and his friends, and I was just starting to speir about them when there came a sound like a man walkin' along the passage.
He's verra ill the noo, an' the mistress sent me ower to speir gien ye wad obleege her by gaein' to see him.
And then he'll speir me how I came by it, and wherefore I kept it sae lang, and a' about it.
And then he bade me speir what ye had done wi' the laird's siller and gowd.
Just speir him that," called Andy after her, and then he strode away down the glen.
Gar warn the bows of Hartlie burn; See they sharp their arrows on the wa'; Warn Willeva andSpeir Edom, And see the morn they meet me a'.
Gie my service back to my wife and bairns, And a' gude fellows that speir for me!
He 's verra ill the noo, an' the mistress sent me ower to speirgien ye wad obleege her by gaein' to see him.
Maybe ye wadna objec', sir, to gang and speir efter the laddie, an' gie him some guid advice?
What for dinna ye gang ower to Maister Graham, an' speir what he thinks?
I wadna even ken what buiks to gang an' speir for.
Ye may speir 'at ye like, sae lang 's ye canna gar me stan' to hearken.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
