It 'll be an awfu' fecht wi' the Hielant train.
Muirtown platform 'll be worth seein'; it 'll juist be michty," and the collector departed, smacking his lips in prospect of the fray.
"Upon my word," said the General, taken aback for a moment by the easy manners of his countryman, but rejoicing in every new assurance of home, "our people are no blate." "Is n't it delicious to be where character has not been worn smooth by centuries of oppression, but where each man is himself?
Conversation has salt here, and tastes in the mouth.

We 've just heard two men speak this morning, and each face is bitten into my memory.

Now our turn has come," and the train wound itself in at last.
Porters, averaging six feet and with stentorian voices, were driving back the mixed multitude in order to afford foothold for the new arrivals on that marvellous landing place, which in those days served for all the trains which came in and all that went out, both north and south.

One man tears open the door of a first with commanding gesture.
"A' change and hurry up.

Na, na," rejecting the offer of a private engagement; "we hev nae time for that trade the day.