sprechery

I grant most of your folk left the Highlands expedited as it were, and free from the incumbrance of baggage; but it is unspeakable the quantity of useless sprechery which they have collected on their march.

Waverley 2004

I grant most of your folk left the Highlands, expedited as it were, and free from the encumbrance of baggage; but it is unspeakable the quantity of useless sprechery which they have collected on their march.

The Waverley 1877

I grant most of your folk left the Highlands expedited as it were, and free from the incumbrance of baggage; but it is unspeakable the quantity of useless sprechery which they have collected on their march.

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

I grant most of your folk left the Highlands expedited as it were, and free from the incumbrance of baggage; but it is unspeakable the quantity of useless sprechery which they have collected on their march.

Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

I grant most of your folk left the Highlands expedited as it were, and free from the incumbrance of baggage; but it is unspeakable the quantity of useless sprechery which they have collected on their march.

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

I grant most of your folk left the Highlands, expedited as it were, and free from the incumbrance of baggage; but it is unspeakable the quantity of useless sprechery which they have collected on their march, I saw one fellow of yours (craving your pardon once more) with a pier-glass upon his back. '

Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

Taking matters into account, therefore, and considering that it is not good for man to be alone, Nanse and me laid our heads together towards the taking a bit house in the fore-street of Dalkeith; and at our leisure kept a look-out about buying the plenishing -- the expense of which, for different littles and littles, amounted to more than we expected; yet, to our hearts 'content, we made some most famous second-hand bargains of sprechery, amongst the old-furniture warehousemen of the Cowgate.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Taking matters into account, therefore, and considering that it is not good for man to be alone, Nanse and me laid our heads together towards the taking a bit house in the fore-street of Dalkeith; and at our leisure kept a look-out about buying the plenishing -- the expense of which, for different littles and littles, amounted to more than we expected; yet, to our hearts 'content, we made some most famous second-hand bargains of sprechery, amongst the old-furniture warehousemen of the Cowgate.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824