The maiden fair cried aloud for joy, and then the hireman chiel knew that she was true to him, and he said: — If you love me well, stretch out your hand to me. So the maiden fair stretched out her hand to the hireman chiel in the ploughman's frock, and the baron swore a great oath and galloped away through the stagnant pool.

This drink has a barky taste.

When Bell Sinclair arrived back in Caithness very ill after a period of mantuamaking in Edinburgh, with no means of her own, she wrote to her uncle informing him that her cousins the Barrocks had refused to help her.

rendering of fat into soap