In like manner, the obtrusive type of the "canny Scot" is apt to make critics forget the hot heart that has marked the early annals of the country, from the Hebrides to the Borders, with so much violence, and at the same time has been the source of so much strong feeling and persistent purpose.

François, never still for an instant,... Christina, rosy, calm, and conscientious, and Duncan, as canny and prudent as any of his people.

Here the Norsman bunks with the canny

I took him for an old Scot; a canny, austere mana man, too, who had known sorrow, and profited thereby; and I drew near to him.

The question was whether this very young lady could manage it at all; and if she failed, as the last incumbent had,failed egregiously, too; the school had broken up in riotous confusion before the end of the year,the canny Scotchmen of the School Board did not wish to be pledged to pay that extra five pounds.

Six feet two inches in his stockings he stood, and so straight that he looked taller even than that; blue-gray eyes full of a canny twinkle; freckles,yes, freckles that were really past the bounds of belief, for up into his hair they ran, and to the rims of his eyes,no pale, dull, equivocal freckles, such as might be mistaken for dingy spots of anything else, but brilliant, golden-brown freckles, almost auburn like his hair.

"It's none a trick for a canny lad to cheat the hounds.

" "Canny lad!"

Your Scot is a canny yin; he'll aye tak' his pleasures seriously.

Ca' canny, they'll be tellin' ye, but not I!

Many and many the canny Scot who's made a great place for himsel' in the world was born and brocht up in a wee village in a glen.

Maybe it's meanness for folk like that to be canny, to be saving, to be putting the bawbees they micht be spending on pleasure in the kist on the mantel where the pennies drop in one by one, sae slow but sure.

"Harry," I've had them say to me, in wee toons in America, "ca' canny here.

I'd read the words of Sir Douglas Haig, that braw and canny Scot wha held the British line in France, when he said Britain was fichtin' wi' her back tae the wall.

I'm canny; I like to think that when I spend my money I get its value in return.

But there's a smell here that's no canny; so I just go up again into the fresh air.

Mr. Cathro was rubbing his hands together covertly, yet half wishing he could take her aside and whisper: "Be canny; it's grand to hear you, but be canny; he is looking most extraordinar meek, and unless he has cast his skin since he was a laddie, it's not chancey to meddle with him when he is meek.

Mr. Cathro was rubbing his hands together covertly, yet half wishing he could take her aside and whisper: "Be canny; it's grand to hear you, but be canny; he is looking most extraordinar meek, and unless he has cast his skin since he was a laddie, it's not chancey to meddle with him when he is meek.

"Corp," she answered, "you needna be so canny, for the laddie is in the town, and Mr. Sandys has confessed all.

And she really was to go away in it, a noticeable thing, for in Thrums society, though they usually get a going-away dress, they are too canny to go away in it

A man might have been puzzled as to where all the kilted Highland soldiers whom he had seen at the front came from, if he had not known that the canny Highlanders enlist Lowlanders in kilty regiments.

It was clear from his looks that only material of the best quality and work that was true would be acceptable to this canny mentor of efficiency, "And the workers?

How completely the national character of the worthy canny old Scot is stamped on the care and thrift visible in his whole property, the judicious successful culture of which has improved and adorned his dwelling in this remote corner of the earth!

But he meant to be canny; this time he would choose a woman who, if she ruled him, would not misrule him; what he could stand was a sovereign, not a despot, and he believed that he had found this exceptionally gifted and exceptionally moderated being: it was Miss Anna Hardage.

To which the canny Scot replied, "Tastes differ; I'se tak ye to a place no far frae Stirling, whaur thretty