bruckle

• “We be bruckle folk here -- the best o' us hardly honest sometimes, what with hard winters, and so many mouths to fill, and”

  The Bibliotaph and Other People

• “` ` I trust in God, not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; --- but what signifies warld's gear? '”

  The Waverley

• “I trust in God not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; -- but what signifies warld's gear?”

  Waverley — Volume 2

• “I trust in God, not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; -- but what signifies warld's gear?”

  Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since

• “He groaned to the young man in a whisper, “This is a bruckle het, maister, I’m much afeared!”

  The Woodlanders

• “His father, the reverent Pa’son St. Cleeve, made a terrible bruckle hit in ‘s marrying, in the sight of the high.”

  Two on a Tower

• “‘I trust in God not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; — but what signifies warld’s gear?’”

  Waverley

• “a terrible bruckle hit in 's marrying, in the sight of the high.”

  Two on a Tower

• “Lasses are bruckle things, "she added, with a nod;" and though ye would never think it by my wrunkled chafts, I was a lassie mysel ', and a bonny one. ”

  David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.

• “Faith, it wasn't worth your while on our account, for as Maister Billy Wills says, we be bruckle folk here -- the best o 'us hardly honest sometimes, what with hard winters, and so many mouths to fill, and Goda'mighty sending his little taties so terrible small to fill 'em with.”

  The Mayor of Casterbridge

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