So when I got to Glesca I picked up thon fat girl we used to fling rubbish at when we was young.
But if Lapraik's at hame, I'll rin up the flag at the harbour, and ye can try Thon Thing wi' the gun.
You may be sure they liked it little; but it was a means of grace to severals that stood there praying in to themsel's (for nane cared to pray out loud) and looking on thon awesome thing as it cawed the shuttle.
And here's good-bye to ye, my braw woman; and I'll no forget thon of the cinnamon water.
Phaëthon occurs the Ligyan king Cycnus at the mouth of the amber-producing river Eridanus, which doubtless was originally supposed to fall into the sea on the north or north-west.
Down, down I come; like glistering Phaëthon Wanting the manage of unruly jades.
Sure thon's a quare steady fellow, thon Doctor, an' he will hae an eye to Henry.
Our wean has got thon ither wee comrade to steady him now.
A cloak was flung over his broad shoulders, a cloak whose grey texture was set aflame with an embroidery of Phaëthon and his father’s chariot.
Phaëthon is said to have fallen into it when he attempted to drive the horses of his father, the sun.
Ovid tells how Phaëthon was treated by his father in a like way (Met.
Then, lest their long journey should cause them to fail, she bids the flames never die nor sleep and drenches the wood with that secret drug[132] wherewith Phaëthon bedews his steeds and the Moon her bulls.
Phaëthon was universally allowed to be the Sun by the antient mythologists of Greece; to whom we must appeal, and not to the Roman poets.
Such are the witty strictures of Lucian upon the story of Phaëthon and Cycnus, as described by the poets.
Phaëthon was the same as Phanes: and there is something very mysterious in his character.
Here Phaëthon was supposed to have met with his downfal; and here his brother Cycnus underwent the metamorphosis, of which we have spoken.
But watch you if he hasna a hoast and thon hectic flush that aye breaks oot in chapter nine jist aboot the time he wins the gold medal.
Him and me was in thon new tea-room wi' the comic windows.
I wad be only too willin',' he tellt her, 'if I had on my ither boots and hadna ett thon last cookie.
You may be sure they likit it little; but it was a means of grace to severals that stood there praying in to themsel's (for nane cared to pray out loud) and looking on thon awesome thing as it cawed the shuttle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
