birkies

Except I don't drive a prius, won't pay $4 for a cup of coffee and prefer more stylish shoes to birkies.

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"If it was only you, they would likely send two-three lively, brisk young birkies, and if they thought that I was to appear in the employ, I daresay ten or twelve," said he.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

"But thae young birkies gie oot 'at they see naebody comin' in, an 'cover their face wi' ae hand sae solemn, that if ye didna catch them keekin 'through their fingers tae see what like the kirk is, ye wud think they were prayin'."

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

When you preach, we a 'ken the word o' God's safe in your hands; but when thae young birkies tak it in haun, my certie, but it taks us a 'to look after them [183].'

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

"If it was only you, they would likely send two-three lively, brisk young birkies, and if they thought that I was to appear in the employ, I daresay ten or twelve," said he.

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 Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

"If it was only you, they would likely send two-three lively, brisk young birkies, and if they thought that I was to appear in the employ, I daresay ten or twelve," said he.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Nevertheless, I looked for my clothes; and, opening one half of the window shutter, I saw four young birkies, well dressed -- indeed three of them customers of my own -- all belonging to the town; two of them young doctors, one of them a writer's clerk, and the other a grocer.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

Nevertheless, I looked for my clothes; and, opening one half of the window shutter, I saw four young birkies, well dressed -- indeed three of them customers of my own -- all belonging to the town; two of them young doctors, one of them a writer's clerk, and the other a grocer.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

` ` That will do bravely, 'said Saddletree, rubbing his hands; and ye sall hae a my skill and knowledge to gar the siller gang far --- I'll tape it out weel --- I ken how to gar the birkies tak short fees, and be glad o' them too --- it's only garring them trow ye hae twa or three cases of importance coming on, and they'll work cheap to get custom.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

There's ae gude thing o 'the change, or the Revolution, as they ca' it, -- folks may speak out afore thae birkies now, and nae fear o 'being hauled awa to the guard-house, or having the thumikins screwed on your finger-ends, just as

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801