I hadna been a wife a week but only four, When mournfu' as I sat on the stane at the door, I saw my Jamie's wraith,for I couldna think it he, Till he said, 'I'm come hame to marry thee.' O sair, sair did we greet, and muckle did we say; We took but ae kiss, and we tore ourselves away; I wish that I were dead, but I'm no like to dee; And why was I born to say, Wae's me!

The floore of sparkling Diamonds, and the roofe Studded with Stanes shining as bright as fire.

Browt it doon on stane-boats by the oad green road.

"Some big stanes fell on t' ram when Mayson was Bringing flock doon Barra ghyll.

We came first to the New Bridge, which had a triumphal arch in the middle, and the lines, from the "Twa Brigs of Ayr:" "Will your poor narrow foot-path of a street, Where twa wheel-barrows tremble when they meet, Your ruin'd, formless bulk o' stane and lime, Compare wi' bonnie brigs o' modern time?"

While on the arch of the 'old brig' was the reply: "I'll be a brig when ye're a shapeless stane.

Weel, that nicht I was passing through Threadneedle street, hard by the Bank of England, that great, grey building o' stane.

Stane Adamic (NK); 18Jan68; R427338.

Stane Adamic (NK); 23Feb68; R429899.

Stane Adamic (NK); 18Jan68; R427353. ADAMIC, STANE.

Stane Adamic (NK); 18Jan68; R427353. ADAMIC, STANE.

Stane Adamic (NK); 5Nov68; R448060.

ADAMIC, STANE. Two-way passage.

Stane Adamic (NK); 29Aug67; R416656.

ADAMIC, STANE.

Stane Adamic (NK); 5Nov68; R448060.

ADAMIC, STANE. Two-way passage.

Here there is a sudden interruption in the legendary history of the stane, and we have no means of conjecturing how it passed from the possession of Jacob into that of Solomon.

Again, during the prevalence of a murrain about the year 1629, certain persons proposed to stay the plague with the help of a celebrated "cureing stane" of which the laird of Lee was the fortunate owner.

The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering woods and wa's[084] maun shield, But thou beneath the random bield[085] O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie[086] stibble field[087] Unseen, alane.

James, also, good-naturedly complied with the Ambassador's request, and agreed to act as judge on the occasion; and he laughingly remarked to Buckingham"Ye are demented, Steenie, to risk a' those precious stanes with which ye are bedecked on the skill with which ye can yield a frail lance.

The game is played with "stones," or, to use their Scotch pseudonym, "stanes."

To every man two stanes.

You can either get your "stanes" in England and travel out with them, or hire them in the locality.

For some time the patriarch observed the movements of the geologist, and at length, going up to him, quietly said, "Sir, ye're breaking something there forbye the stanes!"