At the worst, the money was no more than a tocher with the lad; it was their start in Drimlee and Maam that are now together for the sake of an old vanity of the factors.
Well, then, since thy father keeps thy tocher from me, I must borrow of my own kin.
After all, Jan had been the injured man; he ought to have had some of her tocher down.
The cruel man threw her away from him, just as if her tocher had been the weight of herself in copper, instead of gold.
But tocheris refused by the Scot, who wants only his dearly won lady.
It is not for your bonny face, Nor for your beauty bonny, But it is all for your tocher good I come so far about ye.
Rise up, rise up, my bierly bride; I think my bed's but caul; I woudna hear my lady lament For your tocher ten times taul.
Seven ships they brought you here, But ye'll gang hame in ane; Ye'll leave the rest to tocher Ann, For wi her I got nane.
O seven ships did bring you here, An an sal tak you hame; The leve I'll keep to your sister Jane, For tocher she gat nane.
If it be not for my comely face, Nor for my beauty bonnie, My tocher good ye'll never get paid Down on the board before ye.
My mother shall mak my tocher up, When I tell her how you thrive; For we never knew where you was gone, Or if you was alive.
Believe me, I'll hope to get a wife out of your parish some day yet; but I warn you she must have a tocher in her stocking as well as on her father's hill.
It was na for naething ye left poor young Peggie; It was for my tocher ye cam' to court me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tocher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
