Syne with the first stroke e'er he strake, He garr'd[501] his body bleed.
Thair is no syne quhair Goddis law is not violated.
To satisfie for syne lyes not in manis power, but the remissioun thairof cumis by unfeaned reapentance, and by faith apprehending God the Father mercifull in Christ Jesus, his sone.
Quhen every man had judgit as him list, They saltit me, syne closit me in ane kist.
Awa' it wanna gang, maybe for a haill day, an' syne it mayna come again for months.
She wad be angert first, an' syne her hert wad be like to brak.
Lord, mak' clean my hert within me, an' syne I'll care little for ony jeedgement but thine.
Up the morn the auld wife raise, And at her leisure pat on her claise; 30 Syne to the servant's bed she gaes, To speer for the silly poor man.
And first they ate the white puddings, 25 And syne they ate the black: Muckle thought the gudewife to hersell, Yet ne'er a word she spak.
Scho draif the day unto the night, Scho lousit the pluch, and syne come hame; 110 Scho fand all wrang that sould bene richt, I trow the man thought richt grit schame.
But sen that ye will husyskep ken, 25 First ye sall sift and syne sall kned; And ay as ye gang but and ben, Luk that the bairnis dryt not the bed.
Albeit na butter he could gett, Yit he wes cummerit with the kyrne, 70 And syne he het the milk our hett, And sorrow a spark of it wald yirne.
That quhile apon a man will smyle, And prik him syne ane othir quhile.
Syne to the castell went thai thar, 45 And maid thame mekill fest and far.
And quhill the nycht wes neir thai baid, 425 And syne toward the host thai raid.
Engynys alsua for till cast 625 Thai ordanit, and maid redy fast, And set ilk man syne till his ward.
Syne till a strate place can he ga, 32 That is in Makyrnokis way, The Edry-furd it hat perfay; It lyis betuix marras twa, Quhar that na hors on lif ma ga.
Men said syne eftir, this Thomas, That on this wis maid martir was, Was sanctit and myraclis did, 875 Bot envy syne gert thame be hid.
And syne the towris everilkane And wallis gert he tummyll doune: 452 He levit nocht about that toune Tour standand, stane no wall, That he na haly gert distroy all.
And syne hyme that behynd hym was, All magre his will, him gan he ras Fra be-hynd hym, thocht he had sworn, 135 He laid hym evyn him beforn.
Syne they sent me a blue letter frae the lawyer's, but I payed no attention.
Pit the fush in the basket, Tam," said he, "and syne gang away wide up the hill till I cry ye back.
She took my hand and syne looked up in my face as trustful-like as if she ha' kenned me all her days.
He went ben there a while syne to work a stent at your wedding quilt, my bonnie lamb!
The world might wobble round the sun, an’ all the banks go bung, But pipes’ll smoke an’ liquor run while Auld Lang Syne is sung.
I hinna been at the kirk syne ye cam’, as I wis in Ross-shire.
If I was uncivil a minute syne I crave your pardon, for that was not my mind.
XLVI Upon Seynt Andrewe loud can they crye, And thrice they showt on hyght, Syne mark’d them on our English men, As I have told you right.
VIII And first came out the thick, thick blood, And syne came out the thin, And syne came out the bonny heart’s blood; There was no more within.
XVIII And syne he warned his men to go To choose their geldings grass; [And he that had no man to send] His own servant he was.
XXI She kept him till morning, syne bade him be gane, And show’d him the road that he wouldna be ta’en.
IX Syne to the stable door he hied, Wi’ tread as light as light could be; And when he open’d and gaed in, There he fand thirty steeds and three.
Syne pierced him through the fause, fause heart, And set his mother free.
IX Syne he has bent an arblast bow And aim’d an arrow at her head, And swore, if she didna quit the land, Wi’ that same shaft to shoot her dead.
Syne he has kiss’d her rosy lips, All underneath the Eildon Tree.
I canna exact describe it, for she would be lauchin' one second and synesolemn the next.
She took me into the bed to make me promise that, and syne she died.
If she had been looking at me, she maun hae grown feared at that, and syne I could hae gone on though my ilka word was a knockdown blow.
Let me see it first in its jug," Rob answered, slyly, "and syne I may tell you.
The deil was sick, the deil a monk wad be; the deil grew hale, syne deil a monk was he.
Ye wad steal the pocks frae an auld wife, and syne speir where she got them.
Ye ser'd me as the wife did the cat--coost me into the kirn, and syne harl'd me out again.
Confess and be hang'd, and syne your servant, smith.
Illustration] Jeddart justice--first hang a man, synetry him.
Lang syne there was a wa' aroond Edinburgh wi' gates in it.
Syne she saw the sonsie puppy loupin' at Auld Jock's heels, bonny as a poodle, but mair knowin'.
Fifty yearssyne Lord Erskine was laughed down in Parliament for proposing to give legal protection to dumb animals.
An' syne ye hear a throstle or a redbreast sing an' a saucy blackbird whustle.
The caretaker exploded with wrath: "Syne I'll hae the law on ye.
He didna blatter, but he greeted so sair to be let oot, an syne he scratched a' the paint aff the door.
An' syne there's mair singin' birdies than for mony a year.
Had I for warldis unkyndness In hairt tane ony heviness, Or fro my plesans bene opprest; I had bene deid lang syne dowtless: For to be blyth me think it best.
Nor am I making confession to the wife, syne she reads all I write, whether abody else does so or nicht.
We've had to help ourselves, syne there was no one else had the time to gie us help.
They put me on a stool, syne I'm such a wee body, and that raised my head up high enow sae that ma voice wad carry straight through the horn to the machine that makes the master record's first impression.
He was aff tae Liverpool at once, and we've never clapped een upon him syne then.
Of coorse ye let him have it--and told him not to think of it as a loan, syne he was in such trouble?
Syne then no foreign invader has e'er set foot in Britain.
It sounded harmless, as he put it so, and we thocht, syne it was to be on the Sunday, it could no be so verra boisterous.
Syne Mac had said he could play a little, I told him he must take the honor and drive off.
Thus we came round the clock, upon the Great North Road, to the performance of Auld Lang Syne by day again.
I ha'e nae doot," answered Hector, "Mary and you arranged it lang syne on the braes at Daldowie.
I'll leave my pack at my lodgings and syne I'll be awa oot to Locharbriggs to pay my respects to the widda.
I thocht ye had lang syne made up your mind that he had deid on the moors like a braxy sheep.
He knocked at Lag's door and syne went in, and I heard the water being poured into a basin.
Ye've been queer in the heid for mair than a fortnicht, and me and Andra' had lang syne gi'en ye up.
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