nowte

When Hartley Coleridge, his great friend, asked an old man who was breaking stones on the road if he had any news, he answered, "Why, nowte varry partic'lar; only awd Wordsworth's brokken lowse ageean!"

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

[151] "But for nowte that I myte beholden and desyrin I could not se."

Revelations of Divine Love 1901

Begin wi 'needles and preens, and end wi' horn'd nowte.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

David, he allowed that ` ` he was an excellent judge of nowte and sheep, and a sensible eneugh carle, an it werena for his tamn'd Cameronian nonsense, whilk it is not worth while of a shentleman to knock out of an auld silly head, either by force of reason or otherwise. ''

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

And respecting David, he allowed that "he was an excellent judge of nowte and sheep, and a sensible eneugh carle, an it werena for his tamn'd Cameronian nonsense, whilk it is not worth while of a shentleman to knock out of an auld silly head, either by force of reason or otherwise."

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

And respecting David, he allowed that “he was an excellent judge of nowte and sheep, and a sensible eneugh carle, an it werena for his tamn’d

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

-- the mair especially, that they take pride in it, and reckon driving a spreagh (whilk is, in plain Scotch, stealing a herd of nowte) a gallant, manly action, and mair befitting of pretty* men (as sic reivers will ca 'themselves), than to win a day's wage by ony honest thrift.

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

-- the mair especially, that they take pride in it, and reckon driving a spreagh (whilk is, in plain Scotch, stealing a herd of nowte) a gallant, manly action, and mair befitting of pretty* men (as sic reivers will ca 'themselves), than to win a day's wage by ony honest thrift.

Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

Ye had better stick to your auld trade o’ theft-boot, black-mail, spreaghs, and gillravaging — better stealing nowte than ruining nations.”

Rob Roy 2005

o 'your nowte-bestial, when ye were in an honest calling, than ever ye hae been since, at the head o' your Hieland kernes and gally-glasses? ''

Rob Roy 1887