bonnet-laird

"Oh! here be the gentleman the captain's brocht hame!" he cried, emphasizing the two words; "as braw a gentleman as eer taen frae pirates, an 'nae doubt sin to ae bien Buckskin bonnet-laird."

Richard Carvel — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909

"Oh! here be the gentleman the captain's brocht hame!" he cried, emphasizing the two words; "as braw a gentleman as eer taen frae pirates, an 'nae doubt sin to ae bien Buckskin bonnet-laird."

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

"Oh! here be the gentleman the captain's brocht hame!" he cried, emphasizing the two words; "as braw a gentleman as eer taen frae pirates, an 'nae doubt sin to ae bien Buckskin bonnet-laird."

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

"Oh! here be the gentleman the captain's brocht hame!" he cried, emphasizing the two words; "as braw a gentleman as eer taen frae pirates, an 'nae doubt sin to ae bien Buckskin bonnet-laird."

Richard Carvel Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 1899

I was unwilling to say a word about it till I had secured the ground, for it belonged to auld Johnnie Howie, a bonnet-laird* hard by, and blessed were the times when thy industry could be so rewarded!

The Antiquary 1845

A bonnet-laird signifies a petty proprietor, wearing the dress, along

The Antiquary 1845

Scott's out-of-doors occupations of that autumn, sufficient light will be thrown on them by the following letter; from which it is seen that he had now completed a rather tedious negotiation with another bonnet-laird, and definitively added the lands of _Kaeside_ to the original estate of Abbotsford.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824

Howie, a bonnet-laird* hard by, and many a communing we had before he and

The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

* A bonnet-laird signifies a petty proprietor, wearing the dress, along with the habits of a yeoman.

The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

* A bonnet-laird signifies a petty proprietor, wearing the dress, along with the habits of a yeoman.

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801