laddie

• "You've been main good in writin', laddie, an' I don't know what Jane would ha' done without your letters. —  On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
• "You was ay a guid hearted laddie--I'm awfu' glad." —  The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
• I dinna doubt but what it's the school that Esther Auld's laddie is at So after being long lost sight o' he turned up at Cullew, wi' what looked to simple folk a fortune in his pouches, and half a dozen untrue stories about how he made it. —  Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
• Unless something unexpected happens to the laddie--unless he take to playing at scholarship as if it were a Jacobite rebellion, for instance--he shouldna have the ghost of a chance of a bursary, and if he were any other boy as ill-prepared I should be ashamed to send him up, but he is Tommy Sandys, you see, and--it is a terrible thing to say, but it's Gospel truth, it's Gospel truth--I'm trusting to the possibility of his diddling the examiners It was a startling confession for a conscientious dominie, and Cathro flung out his hands as if to withdraw the words, but his visitor would have no tampering with them. —  Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
• The laddie is a genius!" —  Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood

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