Yet when the time came, the Stickit One found not one, but two right hands outstretched to greet him, which, after all, is as many as any man may grasp at once.
But with a great effort the Stickit Minister set the tall narrow dram-glass on the table and ceremoniously filled out to his brother the stranger's "portion," as was once the duty of country hospitality in Scotland.
I had insisted on the Stickit Minister taking his plaid about him in addition to his overcoat, and the ends of it flicking into my eyes increased the difficulty.
I dedicated the first series of the "Stickit Minister" stories Eight years ago "The Stickit Minister" stood friendless without the door of letters.
For almost the only time in his life I saw a look, stern and hard, come over the countenance of the Stickit Minister.
But the Stickit Minister turned from us both to the woman, who took two swift steps towards him with her arms outstretched, and such a yearning of love on her face as I never saw before or since.
The Stickit Minister,' 'The Heather Lintie,' are two that appeal to me particularly.
In a San Francisco paper there appeared a report of a speech he had made to some kindly Scots who entertained him in Honolulu, In it he spoke affectionately of "The Stickit Minister.
Since ye're set on gaeing on a wee bit further, we'll gang; but dinna get yer hopes stickit on finding onything!
There's always a good story in a Crockett novel, and has been ever since the days of 'The Stickit Minister.
Hutton was a "stickit minister" of the Unitarian persuasion, who had been led, mainly by the teaching of F.
A cruel ploy not worth speaking of,' continued theStickit Minister.
I worked the work of the farm, rain and shine, ever since, and have been for these six years the "stickit minister" that all the world kens the day.
Henry Fraser, the rising physician of Carn Edward, and his elder brother Robert, once Student of Divinity at Edinburgh College, whom three parishes knew as 'The Stickit Minister.
The Stickit Minister took his head off his hand and leaned wearily back in his chair.
Bible, stumbled down the pulpit-stairs, trampling upon the old women who generally take their station there, and was ever after designated as a "stickit minister.
Ye ken whether he has gumption or no; an' gien he be a stickit minister, he stack by the grace o' moadesty.
Meg Horn, the auld kail runt, an' Sanny Graham, the stickit minister.
And gin ye stickit a preen until her ony gate, I declare she wad fizz.
They haestickit the minister, hanged the precentor, Dung down the steeple, and drucken the bell.
Did you see a man who wrote the Stickit Minister,[68] and dedicated it to me, in words that brought the tears to my eyes every time I looked at them.
He's stickitnae mair, but a chosen trumpet at last!
Bible, stumbled down the pulpit-stairs, trampling upon the old women who generally take their station there, and was ever after designated as a 'stickit minister.
Listen, ye stickit stibbler, to what I tell ye, or ye sail rue it while there's a limb o' ye hings to anither!
