 It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep.' The streets, or rather the lanes, were dark, but for a shifting gleam of moonlight, which, as that planet began to rise, was now and then visible upon some steep and narrow gable. No sound of domestic...  Castle Dangerous - Էջ 151Walter Scott - 2001 - 374 էջՄասամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Henry H. Methuen - 1846 - 352 էջ
...information, and employment Well could I realize the truth of the old proverb of the house of Douglas, " It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep." The method of journeying in South Africa, where extensive trips are meditated, is by waggons, well stored... | |
 | 1858 - 372 էջ
...the soldier from the contaminating influence of billets, and also as a just economy to the tax-payer. 'It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep ;' and young soldiers are more quickly taught what is useful in the open field than in the most elaborately... | |
 | 1859
...be under canvass, in order to keep the soldier removed from the contaminating influence of billets. "It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep," and young soldiers are more quickly taught what is useful in the open field than in the most elaborately... | |
 | 1865 - 708 էջ
...favonrite saying of the " Good Sir James" Donglas, the companion of Robert Brace's dangers, that " It is better to hear the lark sing, than the mouse cheep :" meaning that he would never shut himself tip in a castle while he toiúd keep the open field. suffer... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 704 էջ
...favourite saying of the " Good Sir James" Douglas, the companion of Robert Brace's dangers, that " It is better to hear the lark sing, than the mouse cheep :" meaning that he would never shut himself up in a castle while he could keep the open field. suffer... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1902 - 550 էջ
...saith A lappewinke hath lost his feith And is the brid falsest of alle. — Gower, CA, ii. 329. LARK. It is better to* hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep. * I wad rather.— Cunningham, Glossary to Burns. MARTIN. The martin and the swallow are God Almighty's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1905 - 610 էջ
...those fierce troubles that most of them who were capable of bearing arms had left it, and with4 drawn themselves to different parts of the country. This...visible upon some steep and narrow gable. No sound cf domestic industry or domestic festivity was heard, and no ray of candle or firelight glanced from... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1900 - 276 էջ
...Ballad literature, Douglas is the most familiar name. Its motto points to its kingship of the wilds — "It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep." Gordon is the northern ballad-name. Gordon — a Border name "stown awa!" In character and constitution... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1859 - 624 էջ
...under canvass, in order to keep the soldier removed from the contaminating influence of billets. " It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep," and young soldiers are more quickly taught what is useful in the open field than in the most elaborately... | |
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