Lexicographical Neighbors of Lammie
Literary usage of Lammie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Motherwell (1846)
""Thebeauty, gallantry, and amiable qualities of ' Bonny Andrew lammie ' seem,"
says Mr. Jamieson, "to have been proverbial, wherever he went. ..."
2. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Motherwell (1846)
""Thebeauty, gallantry, and amiable qualities of ' Bonny Andrew lammie ' seem,"
says Mr. Jamieson, " to have been proverbial, wherever he went. ..."
3. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1892)
"ANDREW lammie A. ' The Trumpeter of Fyvie,' Jamieson's Popular C. a. ' Andrew lammie,"
Buchan's Gleanings, p. 98, Ballads, I, 126, 1806. ..."
4. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1881)
"I am wae For the heart-broken lammie that bleats on the brae. An' I pity't the
mair, for I'm sair vexed mysel', But its no for my mither, tho' her name I'll ..."
5. The Scottish Ballads by Robert Chambers (1829)
"... thy mother's shame, A hapless fate, a bastard's name I Balow, my boy ; lie
still and sleip ! It grieves me sair to see thee weip.* ANDREW lammie-f AT ..."
6. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1881)
"They ha'e tethered a lammie on por brae face, An' it fain wa'd be back to its
ain auld ... I am wae For the heart-broken lammie that bleats on the brae. ..."
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