rudas

• “YE gied the wild-fowl, the best end of our christening dinner, to a friend of yours, ye auld rudas!”

  The Bride of Lammermoor

• “(She lowered her voice.) "Ye mun ken, Sir, that o 'a' the leddies frae the Lammermuir, that hae been comin 'and gaen, there was an auld rudas wife this fair, an' I'm certie she's witched the yill; and ye mun just look into ye'r buiks, an 'tak off the withchin!”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829

• “And I think you will be as little fitted for the rudas men as for the pretty ladies, after all!" says she, when I had done.”

  David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.

• “I heard ane o 'his gillies bid that auld rudas jaud of a gudewife gie ye that.”

  Rob Roy

• “` ` Ta Duinh-wassel might please himsell; ta auld rudas loon had never done Callum nae ill.”

  The Waverley

• “--- But what can ail them to bury the auld carlin (a rudas wife she was) in the night-time?”

  The Antiquary

• “Ta Duinhe-wassel might please himsell; ta auld rudas loon had never done Callum nae ill.”

  Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since

• “Ta duinhe-wassel might please himsell; ta auld rudas loon had never done”

  Waverley

• “I followed the auld rudas through twa courts -- she cost me mair money than her lugs were worth. ”

  Redgauntlet

• “-- But what can ail them to bury the auld carlin (a rudas wife she was) in the night-time?”

  The Antiquary — Volume 02

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