Which preposition to use with bairns

in Occurrences 6%

"There's a precious lot of the bairn in you, Mr. Garvald," he said, "and an ugly spice of the Whiggamore.

to Occurrences 4%

"Good morrow, master bridegroom, and mistress bride, Many fair lovely bairns to you betide!

at Occurrences 3%

I was like to drap at the impudence o' the creaturhe handed me about as if I had been a bairn at a dancin' school.

like Occurrences 2%

Mind your lady and the poor bairns like a godly handmaiden, and I'll buy the ring when the sawmon fishing's over, and we'll just be married ere

of Occurrences 2%

My faither deed, puir man, when I was but a bairn of elevenhe was but thirty-twa himself.

without Occurrences 2%

"I mind," Corp went on, "how when you was little you couldna see a bairn without rocking your arms in a waeful kind o' a way, and we could never thole the meaning o't.

for Occurrences 2%

Down in your proud cities ye are feasting and dicing and smiling on your paramours, but the writing is on the wall, and in a little ye will be crying like weaned bairns for a refuge against the storm of God.

into Occurrences 2%

So I took the bairn into my arms.

with Occurrences 2%

"I must get to the bottom of this," said Tommy, rising, "and as you are too great a coward, Corp, to tell the truth with that shameless woman glowering at you, out you go, Gavinia, and take your disgraced bairn with you.

after Occurrences 1%

It was, after a', a queer sicht, and, as may be supposed, I drew a haill crowd of bairns after me, bawling out, "Here's Willy M'Gee's monkey," and gi'eing him nits and gingerbread, and makin' as muckle of the cratur as could be; for Nosey was a great favourite in the town, and everbody likit him for his droll tricks, and the way he used to girn, and dance, and tumble ower his head, to amuse them.

within Occurrences 1%

She held out her hungry arms, and Jamie put the bairn within them.

on Occurrences 1%

I ran wi' her to the house, and I laid my drowned bairn on her mother's knee.

Which preposition to use with  bairns