baubee

When she belongs to you, by any sort of right, you are blessed if you occasionally know what she is for one hour, without caring a baubee what she may be the next hour.

Idle Comments 1905

Would ye want yon radical bodies to take chairge o 'ony business in which ye had a baubee?

To Him That Hath: a Tale of the West of Today Ralph Connor 1898

_Journey_, and which once led him to question whether there was a tree between Edinburgh and the English border older than himself; and to reply to Boswell's suggestion that he ought to be whipped at every tree over 100 years old in that space, "I believe I might submit to it for a baubee!"

Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897

The two chance shots that seemed to point at Alan and the daughter of James More struck me hard; and I fled from the eldritch creature, casting her a baubee, which she continued to sit and play with under the moving shadows of the hanged.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

The two chance shots that seemed to point at Alan and the daughter of James More struck me hard; and I fled from the eldritch creature, casting her a baubee, which she continued to sit and play with under the moving shadows of the hanged.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

James More, struck me hard; and I fled from the eldritch creature, casting her a baubee, which she continued to sit and play with under the moving shadows of the hanged.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

His buttons were made o 'the baubee baps, and his name was Willy Wood.

Aiken Drum (Willie Wood) 1870

His buttons were made o 'the baubee baps, the baubee baps, the baubee baps,

Aiken Drum (Willie Wood) 1870

And he wad aye mak an honest baubee whan he cud; for siller was fell scarce at that time o 'day amo' the Falconers.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

But I never heedit him that muckle, for ye see it wasna him 'at peyt me -- the mair by token' at gien it had been him 'at had the peyin' o 'me, it's never a baubee wad I hae seen o' my ain siller; but the trustees peyt me, ilka plack, an 'sae I was indepen'ent like, an' luit him say his say.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864