54 examples of paisley in sentences

Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn, That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie.

Born in 1856 at Paisley, Scotland, he settled in London in 1878, and became widely known as William Sharp, the critic.

R. L. Paisley, Oct. 29. 1849.

To pass from an account of a Concert at the Argyll Rooms, with its fantasias and concertanti, to the fact of 940 weavers being at present unemployed in Paisley,and the death of a young man in Paris, from hydrophobia, is a sad transition from gay to graveyet so they stand in the column.

One of my companions went up to a woman in a straw hat, with bright red and green ribbon trimmings and artificial flowers, a gaudy Paisley shawl, and a rainbow-like gown blown out over her yellow boots by a prodigious crinoline, and asked her 'Whom do you belong to?'

Dewhurst & Sons, of Skipton, and Clark & Co., of Paisley, have produced ready wound "cops" or bobbins of thread for placing direct into shuttles.

Mr. Tower has this year had three shawls made of his wool, one of which was examined by the committee of manufacturers, The yarn was spun by Messrs. Pease of Darlington and was woven by Messrs. Miller and Sons of Paisley.

HARWOOD, PAISLEY B. Control of electric motors.

SEE HARWOOD, PAISLEY B. HASTINGS, DOROTHY GRACE.

HARWOOD, PAISLEY B. Control of electric motors.

SEE HARWOOD, PAISLEY B. HASTINGS, DOROTHY GRACE.

Uncle Peter Paisley uset to say that a genius was a person that could take a cork and a dryness of the throat, and with them simple ingrejents construct a case of jim-jams.

SMILEY, HUGH H., Gallowhill, Paisley.

[510] William Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall (Penzance, 1870), pp. 8 sq., 55 sq.; James Napier, Folk-lore, or Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland (Paisley, 1879), p. 173.

See Dr. J. Jamieson, Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, New Edition (Paisley, 1879-1882), ii.

James Napier, Folk Lore, or Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within this Century (Paisley, 1879), p. 179.

(Paisley, 1880)

He wore his Sunday hat and the Sunday polish on his shoes; and his wife was arrayed in her best Paisley shawl.

From the bowels of the earth came the answer to his unspoken questiondelivered in a strong Paisley accent "For Goad's sake, kiss him, and say 'Good-Nicht,' and hae done with it!"

PAISIELLO, GIOVANNI, an Italian composer, born at Taranto; his great work, the opera "Il Barbiere di Seviglia"; composed besides other operas, cantatas, requiems, &c. PAISLEY (66), a Renfrewshire town, 7 m. W. of Glasgow, on the White Cart.

of a new and enlarged edition of his works and a sense of failing health led to his committing suicide in a canal near Paisley; his songs are marked by tenderness and grace, but lack the force and passion of Burns (1774-1810).

WITHERSPOON, JOHN, Scottish theologian, born at Tester; was minister at Paisley; became president of the college at New Jersey, U.S.; died at Princeton; wrote "Ecclesiastic Characteristics" against the Moderates, also on justification and regeneration (1722-1794).

(COMPARED WITH THE EDITIONS OF PAISLEY, 1820, AND BELFAST, 1835.)

[Typographical errors excepted, and Historical Introduction substituted for Preface, this edition agrees with those of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.ED.]

Some gray lisle thread gloves and a rich Paisley shawl completed my toot a sembly.

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