"Weel, Jamie, an' hoo are the patients the day?

Weel, there's truth

" Shortly after the Disruption, Dr. Cook of St. Andrews was introduced to Mr. Dunlop, upon which occasion Mr. Dunlop said, "Weel, sir, ye've been lang Cook, Cooking them, but ye've dished them at last.

Weel, that's a bad egg oot the basket.

Weel, here's luck to the twa o' us!' There is no authentic description of that horrible journey save Willie's, which is unprintable.

Last Sabbath, just as the kirk was skailin,' there was a drover chield frae Dumfries comin' along the road whustlin,' an' lookin' as happy as if it was ta middle o' ta week; weel, sir, oor laads is a God-fearin' set o' laads, an' they were just comin' oot o' the kirk'od they yokit upon him, an' a'most killed him!"

Then for the fabric of my mind, 'Tis mair to mirth than grief inclin'd: I rather choose to laugh at folly, Than shew dislike by melancholy; Weel judging a sour heavy face Is not the truest mark of grace.

Weel, among the customers there was ane that I had got very intimate wi'as genteel and decent a looking man as ye could see; indeed I took him to be a particular serious and honest man.

Weel be all Assistants in the motion.

A tartan plaid, spun of good hawslock woo, Scarlet and green the sets, the borders blue, With spraings like gowd and siller crossed with black; I never had it yet upon my back: Weel are ye wordy o' 't, what have sae kind Sed up my reveled doubts and cleared my mind.

Kirsty was a remarkably weel-faur'd woman, and a number o' the farm lads round about used to come and see her, as weel as trades' chields frae about Coldstream and Birghamno that she gied them ony encouragement, but that it was her misfortune to hae a gude-looking face.

There must be deeds as weel as words.

Wharfore, then, should I, a puir tradesman, fear to put in jeopardy for the country that bore me the life that is hers as weel as yours, and sacrifice, sae far as the guid that my arm can produce, the glory o' my king and the character o' my country?" Margaret heard this speech with the most intense grief.