"Biggin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... perturbation! Golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night, sleep with it now! Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet As he whose brow with homely biggin bound Snores out the ...
— Shakespeare's Insomnia, And the Causes Thereof • Franklin H. Head
... deuce, gin ye like it better," said he. "An' he was gaun to question him where the treasure was, but he had eneuch to do to get him laid without deaving him wi' questions, for a' the deils cam' about him, like bees biggin' out o' a byke. He never coured the fright he gat, but cried out, 'Help! help!' till his very enemy wad hae been wae to see him; and sae he cried till he died, which was no that lang after. Fouk sudna meddle ...
— Folk-Lore and Legends - Scotland • Anonymous
... before him a large pie, and some wheaten bread, with a biggin of good beer. Edward helped Pablo to a large allowance, and then filled his own platter; while thus occupied Oswald Partridge had left the ...
— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat
... biggin is na broken, sir, Nor is your towers won; But the fairest lady in a' the lan' For you this day ...
— Ballads of Romance and Chivalry - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series • Frank Sidgwick
... went like a braw, braw bride To meet her winsome groom, When she was aware of twa bonny birds Sat biggin' in the broom. ...
— Andromeda and Other Poems • Charles Kingsley |
