breid

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Meanwhile, his mother—good soul—not knowing well how to show the greatest amount of civility to her visitors, invited them, in homely phraseology, to "a sup milk, an' a bite o' breid an' cheese."

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Some had bright yellow gloves of "raffal right;" and many, with kirtles of "Lincome light, weel prest wi' mony plaits," pulled the trains in most menacing bundles through the pocket-holes, to shew at once how bright were their colours, and how many a "breid" was wasted in their amplitude.

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And Stephen Ray deposed that three years since he had detected Isobell in a theft, whereon she clapped him on the back, and said, “Go thy way; thow sall nocht win thyself ane bannok of breid for yeir and ane day;” and so it proved.

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Here’s breid an’ wine an’ kebbuck an’ canty cracks at e’en To the folks that mind o’ me when I’m awa’, But them that hae forgot me, O ne’er to be forgi’en— They may a’ gae tapsalteerie in a raw!

From Project Gutenberg

He also foretold the battles of Flodden and Pinkie, and the dule and woe which would follow the defeat of the Scottish arms; but he also foretold Bannockburn, where "The burn of breid Shall run fow reid," and the English be repulsed with great loss.

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