hoosie

"Wheest, man! juist here's where we come to the snuff, for, look ye, every time I bought a paper o 'snuff I minded me that ma brither Alan, not takkin' it himself, was so much siller tae the gude -- an '-- oh, man! it used tae grieve me sair -- till, one day, I lighted on this bit hoosie."

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

So, wishfu 'tae keep this bit hoosie tae mysel' -- seein ''t was haunted as they ca' it -- I juist kep 'up the illusion on account o' trampers, wanderin 'gypsies, an' sic-like dirty tykes.

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

` A swypit my hoosie clean the streen, my winsome laidie. '

Cattie Sits in the Kiln Ring 1909

Jean and Jock, equally miserable, to return alone to the wee bit hoosie on the brae.

The Scotch Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901

As the Twins and their father neared the "wee bit hoosie," Tam came bounding down the brae to meet them, and in less time than it takes to tell it Jean had run into the house, taken off her

The Scotch Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901

In this "cosy wee hoosie" Malcolm McNish and his mother passed their quiet evenings, for the days were given to toil, in talk, not to say discussion of the problems, the rights and wrongs of the working man.

To Him That Hath: a Tale of the West of Today Ralph Connor 1898

"It was you two who hired the 'wee theekit hoosie' in Pettybaw," said

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Mrs. Bobby at Comfort Cottage, in England, or at Bide-a-Wee, the 'wee, theekit hoosie' in the loaning at Pettybaw, for our little love-story was begun in the one and carried on in the other; but this, this, I thought instantly, must somehow be crowded into the scheme of red-letter days.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

The puir soul whose wee hoosie I've rented hadna tasted bit nor sup for three days -- till I came an 'startled her into a greetin' fit by takin 'her rooms an' payin 'her in advance -- eh! mon, ye'd have thought I was a saint frae heaven if ye'd heard her blessin' me, -- an 'a gude curate had called on her just before and had given her a tract to dine on.

Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

When we got to the puir bit hoosie, we fand that the doctor was there afore us.

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