These movin' things ca'd wives and weans Wad move the very hearts o' stanes!
The ignominy of a poet becoming a gauger seems ever to have been present to the mind of Burns--but those moving things ca'd wives and weans have a strong influence on the actions of man.
Wi' weans I'm mair than weel contented, Heav'n sent me ane mae than I wanted.
I wonder to me ye wad be wastin' yer e'esicht lookin' atweans when there's sae mony braw sodgers.
If ye hae yer health and yer wark, and the weans is weel, ye can be as happy as a lord, and far happier.
Whit a shame bringin' ootweans on a nicht like this!
The auld Doctor in oor kirk talks aboot love and chastisement, but in my experience human nature wad be a' to bleezes lang afore this if faithers and mithers didna whiles lose their tempers and gie their weans whit they deserved.
Nane o' your fancy foods for weans for Wullie John.
Frae that till it was time for us to gang hame Jinnet saw naething but weans, and her and Duffy's wife talked aboot weans even on.
But haste ye and come awa' for the sweeties wi' me: whit'll thae wee Wilson weans in the close say the morn if Mrs MacPherson hasna ony sweeties for them?
I hope there's nae weans near thae cannons or they micht get hurt,' says Jinnet.
Weel, we cracked and cracked, and I minded him o' mony o' the ploys we had when we were weans thegither.
I gang daundering beside, and the hearths o'the gudewives that gie me my bit bread, and the bits o' weans that come toddling to play wi' me when I come about a landward town?
I'm sure, ye ken, we hae mae weans than we hae meat for already.
If ye was only aware of what doctors had to do and see, between dwining weans and crying wives, ye would have thought twice before ye let that out.
I dare say they saw themselves marching him after breakfast time, with his yellow jacket, through a mob of weans with glowering een and gaping mouths, up to the Tolbooth.
Your father's a most just man, and will do you and a' his weans justice.
Though his hopes of preferment were never realised, he tried his best on this slender income 'to make a happy fireside clime to weans and wife,' and in a sense succeeded.
You've to get your wife changed every two-three years, an' the weans brought up by the State as they call it.
He has a wife an' weans to worry aboot, an' they need a fire to mak' meat.
For a' thae weans the licht burns fair, But it winna' burn for you!
Lord provides for us, we maun drown the poor folks' weans like kittlings.
Some of the farmers were loading their carts to go home, when the schools skailed, and all the weans came shouting to the market.
I cannot better close this lecture than by quoting four lines from Robert Burns: "To make a happy fireside clime To weansand wife-- That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
But they'll no be kind to the wife, and their weans will run and hide awa' when they come home.
Aye, there's weans in Britain and America, and in many another land, that will ne'er know a faither.
There's selfishness amang those who'll no ha' the weans they should.
We owe something to those weans whose faithers deed for this world's salvation.
And it maun be made possible for people to bring up their weans wi'oot sae much trouble and difficulty as there is for them the noo.
He's a decent body, wi' six o' the finest weans e'er you saw.
But when we came to the spot, it was just a yird toad, and the laddie weans nevelled it to death with stones, before I could persuade them to give over.
For months after, the laddie weans did nothing but squeak and sing like Punch.
All the weans were out parading with napkins and kail-blades on sticks, rejoicing and triumphing in the glad tidings of victory.
However, nothing particular happened to me; but the smallpox came in among the weans of the parish, and the smashing that it made of the poor bits o' bairns was indeed woeful.
Ye mind whit I was saying aboot the dispensation o' Providence to help weans till they could try for theirselves, John?
Ye'll notice the weans cease gettin' their wey by juist greetin' for it as shin as they're old enough to seek it otherwise.
Whit was I tellin' ye, John, about weans gettin' their ain way if the neighbors had ears an' they lived close?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.