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Covenanter alike; and on these occasions he drops his usual placidity and becomes rabid and abusive, as the best-tempered Americans are said to become when they speak of niggers, and deals out to them the terms limmers, thieves, robbers, cut-throats, masterful vagrants, and so forth, with great volubility.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Fair City; and whereas this hand was struck from one of the lawless limmers in the fray that ensued, the provost and magistrates have directed that it should be nailed to the Cross, in scorn and contempt of those by whom such brawl was occasioned.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

“There have been a proper set of limmers about to scale your windows, father Simon; but I am like to prove godfather to one of them, whom I hold here, as fast as ever vice held iron.”

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

I saw the leaves the limmers had lain on, and the ashes of them; by the same token, there was a pit greeshoch purning yet.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

I daur ye, limmers that ye are, to name sic a word at my door-cheek!

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

At low tide beggars from Glen Croe came to his door with yawning pokes and all their old effrontery: he astounded them by the fiercest of receptions, condemned them all eternally for limmers and sorners, lusty rogues and vagabonds.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

"Na, na; it's ma duty as yer dad to keep ye from sic limmers."

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

"Ay," replied Nanny, spiritedly, "but there's dauring limmers wherever there's a single man."

The Little Minister 1898

There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at a leg-foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other aide, and hold a nose.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

And there they are wi 'gun and pistol, dirk and dourlach, ready to disturb the peace o' the country whenever the laird likes; and that's the grievance of the Hielands, whilk are, and hae been for this thousand years by-past, a bike o 'the maist lawless unchristian limmers that ever disturbed a douce, quiet, God-fearing neighbourhood, like this o' ours in the west here. ''

Rob Roy 1887