Though the kilt and the sporran had to be extinguished under a hideous apron of kharki, and though the heat and weight of wool pleats surmounted by cotton was overwhelming, they preferred these sufferings to any change in their gear.
He signed to me with a shake of his sporran to show it was empty, and, falling to his meaning, I took some silver from my own purse and offered it to the glum-faced lad in the blankets.
He dare not once look round, and his closest friends dare not follow him, as he rode alone on the old road so many of our people have gone to their country's wars or to sporran battles.
I stood back a piece from the house and debated with myself whether or not it was one where the tartan of Diarmaid would be sure of a welcome even if his sporran jingled with gold to the very jaws.
A rogue, with a hand in the sporran of every soldier he helped pay wage to.
Rob, had ither folk's purses been as weel guarded, I doubt if your sporran wad hae been as weel filled as it kythes to be by the weight.
She wore only a narrow sporran of blue-birds' feathers to her knees, glistening blue moccasins of the same plumage, and a feathered head dress of the scarlet fire-bird.
As I had guessed, there by the fire lay a soft and heavy pack of doeskins, open, and a pretty Oneida matron sewing Dutch wampum on a painted sporran for her warrior lord.
A woman was weeping on Achadunan because that her man was gone and her chimney stone was cold, and Rob Donn's sporran was emptied at her feet, though he knew not so much as the name of her.
Besides the usual sporran and soul-blade everyone carried, the Sanctioners wore their collars of office, gleaming gold bands snug at their throats.
A kilt is nice, with a cloak for bad weather, and the sporran is useful--but I do not think I would be comfortable with fitted garments all over, such as yours.
Awkwardly, hampered by the way her hands were fastened and by her need for haste, she dug through his sporran for the handcuff key and fumbled it into the lock.
The visit to Glen Sporran Lodge did not improve their relations.
The lobster fishery at Sporran Bay should certainly be developed.
All this was rather amusing to the speculative and speculating Sir Willowby Patterne who arrived at Glen Sporran a fortnight later than Roger and Lucy.
I think we'll send him up to care-take at Glen Sporranand make him sell up the Aldermaston place.
Sibyl had asked four great Imperialists down to Glen Sporran to make Roger's acquaintance: the Honble.
Do you know, I think he must have had just a glimmering about the existence of the Happy Valley--he was always following me about at Glen Sporran and cocking an eye at my correspondence.
The Mackhai, as the dogs, which for a treat had been admitted, came sniffing round the shivering lad, who looked pitiably thin and miserable in the kilt, with the sporran hanging down far lower than it should.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sporran" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.