 | Catherine Macdonald Maclean - Authors, English - 1927 - 156 pages
...son in a storm at sea have some of the inevitability of the words in which David lamented Absalom: "It's weel wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house...wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer." the support of literature. It is just this kind of beauty that we get in the closing scene... | |
 | Harry E. Shaw - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 276 pages
...answered the fisher, gruffly, "unless I wanted to see four children starve, because ane is drowned? It's weel wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house...wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer." [p. 307; ch. 34] Commentators sometimes forget that Monkbarns is not merely being obtuse... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Fiction - 1998 - 516 pages
...gruffly, "unless I wanted to see four children starve, because ane is drowned ? It's weel wi' you gendes, that can sit in the house wi' handkerchers at your...wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer." Without taking more notice of Oldbuck he proceeded in his labour, and the Antiquary, to... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1859 - 852 pages
...repair his battered boat the day after his son was buried. ' It's weel wi' you gentles,' he said, ' that can sit in the house wi' handkerchers at your een, when ye lose a freend ; but the like o' us maun to our wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer... | |
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... us maun to our wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer. 
