graning

` ` And that's a 'your Whiggery,' 're-echoed the Jacobite heroine; ` ` that's a' your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged, graning carles!

The Waverley 1877

'Ay, and they are a hantle mair pious and devout than ever a body I hae seen in Eyemouth, or a' the country side to boot; forbye, my minnie's auld auntie, that sat graning by the ingle, and ay banned us when we came ben.

A Modern Telemachus Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The tane was aye graning about giving tribute to Caesar, and the tither is as daft wi 'her whiggery.

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

Ye see I wad get my mither bestowed wi 'her auld graning tittie, auntie Meg, in the Gallowgate o' Glasgow, and then I trust they wad neither burn her for a witch, or let her fail for fau't o 'fude, or hang her up for an auld whig wife; for the provost, they say, is very regardfu' o 'sic puir bodies.

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

Ye see I wad get my mither bestowed wi 'her auld graning tittie, auntie Meg, in the Gallowgate o' Glasgow, and then I trust they wad neither burn her for a witch, or let her fail for fau't o 'fude, or hang her up for an auld whig wife; for the provost, they say, is very regardfu' o 'sic puir bodies.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

'And that's a' your Whiggery, 'reechoed the Jacobite heroine;' that's a 'your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged, graning carles!

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

The tane was aye graning about giving tribute to Caesar, and the tither is as daft wi 'her whiggery.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

Jacobite heroine; ‘that’s a’ your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged, graning carles!

Waverley 2004

Ye see I wad get my mither bestowed wi’ her auld graning tittie, auntie Meg, in the Gallowgate o’

Old Mortality 2004

“Ill luck be in the graning corse o’ thee! the prettiest lad in Clydesdale this day maun be a sufferer, and a’ for you and your daft whiggery!”

Old Mortality 2004