24 Words to use with sair

Sair trouble cam' our gate,

It's a sair thing to be giving up your ain flesh and blood.

Oh lassie I hae socht the hour When pity wak'nin' lo'e might be, Tell my sair heart a gauldin' flower Has droopit in thy glancin' e'e.

'Ha'e ye got a sair heid?' 'Aysomething like that.

Frae that sair day of grief and fear mither and wean grew better.

"An' if I had sic a sarkfu' o' sair banes wi ae feather," he argued, "what like maun it be wi' a hale bed?"

"They're in a sair hurry: I doot the officer will be there.

We in Britain had a sair lesson in the war.

They've had sair misfortunes to bear, and they've borne them weel.

The man, not meaning to be at all ungrateful, but viewing his preservation in the purely hard matter-of-fact light, quietly answered, "Weel, weel, Mrs. Russell; Providence here or Providence there, an I hadna worked sair mysell I had been drouned.

" "There is John Gilmour, my landlord," continued she, "who, though he needed a' his rents for a big family, passed me many a term, and forbye brought me often, when I was ill and couldna work, many a bottle o' wine; there is Mrs. Paterson o' the Watergate, too, who aince, when I gaed to her in sair need, gave me a shilling out

Oh, it was the sair nicht for those twa, yell ken withoot ma tellin' ye! Come three o' the clock next afternoon and there was the sound o' wheels ootside the wee hoose.

Would it no be a sair pity if that were so?

My heart is growing cauld, And will be caulder still, And sair sair in the fauld, Will be the winter's chill;

Ay, and ye have reduced three human creatures to want, it may be starvation; and I have come here in sair sorrow and necessity to ask when and whaur is to be the remeid?"

Oh, gi'e'n a body's sick, or in trouble o' some sair sort, that's different; he deserves help then, and it's nae the same thing.

"Aweel, aweel," said the old lady drily, "that may be the case, but ye maun prescribe some other method for me to get quit o' the sair throat; for ye ken, doctor, I canna adopt that cure.

There was a sair want of speerit through the haill o' yon lang "Excursion."

Another of a similar character is, An air[140] winter maks a sair winter.

When a hoose burns doon it's a sair calamity, and all the neighbors turn to to help.

If Herbert's rose, in poetic hyperbole, with its "hue angry and brave, bids the rash gazer wipe his eye," certainly such a bed of lobelia as I once saw on the road to "Rollo's Camp" was anything but what the Scotch would call "a sight for sair een."

She was compelled to do this from the narrowness of her circumstances; for, though she was a "clever-handed woman," as her neighbours said, "she had a sair fecht to keep up an appearance onyway like the thing ava."

But then misfortune laid sair hands upon us a'.

In the autumn of '40 she had a sair host, and was aye speaking through a cold, and at dinner never did more than to sup a few family broth.

24 Words to use with  sair