But it is not of her coyness or her blushes that I speak; it is of the paleness which so soon followed the red, and chased it from her cheeks; and it is of the tears which succeeded.

It was like the April showers stealing upon and obscuring the fairest dawning that ever beamed over the Tay." "Tutti taitti," replied the glover; "neither Rome nor Perth were built in a day.

Thou hast fished salmon a thousand times, and mightst have taken a lesson.

When the fish has taken the fly, to pull a hard strain on the line would snap the tackle to pieces, were it made of wire.

Ease your hand, man, and let him rise; take leisure, and in half an hour thou layest him on the bank.