buik

But this Sabbath morning at the "buik," when the solemnity of the week had culminated, and the portion was being read, Walter detected a quaint antiquity in the pronunciation of a Bible name.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

The minister gathered his scanty family at the "buik," and his prayer was full of a fine reverence and feeling pity.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

The "buik" being over, the red farm-cart rattled to the door to convey such of the churchgoers as were not able to walk all the weary miles to the Cameronian kirk in Cairn Edward.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

Ye see that buik, moderator, yir haun's restin 'on the tap o't.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

His puir silly wife was clean dementit, an 'this girl wi' naething but her buik-learnin 'an' sic like rubbish to stand by.

Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke

"I'll gang back on Sabbath mornin '; I'll tak' ma mither's psalm-buik, and I'll gang."

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

"Aweel," remarked Peter, "it's no the ootside o 'her heid Miss Marjory's thinkin' o 'the day, but the inside o't -- to fill it up wi' buik-larnin '."

Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke

'He was a sicklie, tender boy, and tuk pleasure in nathing sa meikle as his buik.'

Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

It'll dae weel eneuch for thae dissentin 'bodies, wi' their prayer-books, but what hae we, wi 'the psalm-buik, an' a regular ministry, an 'a regular kirk, to dae wi' siclike follies?

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

Devill start vp in the pulpett, lyke ane mekill blak man, haifand ane blak buik in his hand, callit on ewerie ane of thame, desyring thame all to be guid serwandis to him, and he sould be ane guid maister to thame.

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913