tocherless

'Lealty is a rare plant ony gate,' sighed Margaret, 'and where sae little is recked of our Scots royalty, mayhap ye'll find that tocherless lasses be less sought for than at hame.

Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

A fair maid tocherless will get mair wooers than husbands.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

Bradwardine, I might have thought it my duty to insist upon certain compliances respecting name and bearings, whilk now, as a landless laird wi 'a tocherless daughter, no one can blame me for departing from.'

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

-- And yet, 'said he, resuming more cheerfully,' it's maybe as weel as it is; for, as Baron of Bradwardine, I might have thought it my duty to insist upon certain compliances respecting name and bearings, whilk now, as a landless laird wi 'a tocherless daughter, no one can blame me for departing from.'

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

“Fie, fie, cummer,” said the matron of Glendearg, hitching her seat of honour, in her turn, a little nearer to the cuttle-stool on which Tibb was seated; “weel-favoured is past my time of day; but I might pass then, for I wasna sae tocherless but what I had a bit land at my breast-lace.

The Monastery 2008

` ` it's maybe as weel as it is; for, as Baron of Bradwardine, I might have thought it my duty to insist upon certain compliances respecting name and bearings, whilk now, as a landless laird wi 'a tocherless daughter, no one can blame me for departing from.' '

The Waverley 1877

'it's maybe as weel as it is; for, as Baron of Bradwardine, I might have thought it my duty to insist upon certain compliances respecting name and bearings, whilk now, as a landless laird wi' a tocherless daughter, no one can blame me for departing from. '

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

'it's maybe as weel as it is; for, as Baron of Bradwardine, I might have thought it my duty to insist upon certain compliances respecting name and bearings, whilk now, as a landless laird wi' a tocherless daughter, no one can blame me for departing from. '

Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

I'm of a good family, and had plenty, and the ones with the tocher won't have me, and the tocherless girls I dare not betray. "

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

"Fie, fie, cummer," said the matron of Glendearg, hitching her seat of honour, in her turn, a little nearer to the cuttle-stool on which Tibb was seated; "weel-favoured is past my time of day; but I might pass then, for I wasna sae tocherless but what I had a bit land at my breast-lace.

The Monastery Walter Scott 1801