wheesht

• “It's slightly later than planned but, hud yer wheesht, we're busy people you know.”

  Archive 2005-07-01

• “Aw, haud your wheesht, Mec," said the driver with a small laugh, putting the bus into reverse and pulling away.”

  Country of the Blind

• “But I may jist haud my wheesht, for I 'm naebody noo.”

  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

• “Oh, wheesht with you, Eleanor, and don't be talking such balderdash.”

  The Foolish Lovers

• “A hell-leap o 'flame ... then the wheesht o' the tomb.”

  Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

• “There were nights of it when he was here on sentry, the place a 'wheesht, the frosts o' winter maybe riving in the wa's, and he would hear ane o 'the prisoners strike up a psalm, and the rest join in, and the blessed sounds rising from the different chalmers-or dungeons, I would raither say-so that this auld craig in the sea was like a pairt of Heev'n.”

  David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.

• “There were nights of it when he was here on sentry, the place a 'wheesht, the frosts o' winter maybe riving in the wa's, and he would hear ane o 'the prisoners strike up a psalm, and the rest join in, and the blessed sounds rising from the different chalmers -- or dungeons, I would raither say -- so that this auld craig in the sea was like a pairt of Heev'n.”

  Catriona

• “There were nights of it when he was here on sentry, the place a 'wheesht, the frosts o' winter maybe riving in the wa's, and he would hear are o 'the prisoners strike up a psalm, and the rest join in, and the blessed sounds rising from the different chalmers -- or dungeons, I would raither say -- so that this auld craig in the sea was like a pairt of Heev'n.”

  David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona

• “Haud yer wheesht, Maister Ken -- haud yer wheesht!" cried the big forester angrily.”

  Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai

• “He has sic a luik, as gien he saw nor heard onything but ae thing, the whilk ae thing keeps on inside him, and winna wheesht.”

  Salted with Fire

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