jer-falcon

I out like a jer-falcon, and cried, --- ` Wad they shoot an honest woman's poor innocent bairn? '

The Waverley 1877

The snow-bunting, the jer-falcon, and the snowy owl are also white-coloured birds inhabiting the arctic regions, and there can be little doubt but that their colouring is to some extent protective.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

I out like a jer-falcon, and cried -- "Wad they shoot an honest woman's poor innocent bairn?"

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

Twa unlucky red-coats were up for black-fishing, or some siccan ploy -- for the neb o 'them's never out o' mischief -- and they just got a glisk o 'his Honour as he gaed into the wood, and banged aff a gun at him, I out like a jer-falcon, and cried, -- "Wad they shoot an honest woman's poor innocent bairn?"

Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

I out like a jer-falcon, and cried -- "Wad they shoot an honest woman's poor innocent bairn?"

Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

I out like a jer-falcon, and cried -- "Wad they shoot an honest woman's poor innocent bairn?"

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

“I think ye hae been at the wee cappie this morning, for as early as it is — My gude name! — if ony body touched my gude name, I would neither fash counsel nor commissary — I wad be down amang them, like a jer-falcon amang a wheen wild-geese, and the best amang them that dared to say ony thing of

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

-- if ony body touched my gude name, I would neither fash counsel nor commissary -- I wad be down amang them, like a jer-falcon amang a wheen wild-geese, and the best amang them that dared to say ony thing of Meg Dods by what was honest and civil, I wad sune see if her cockernonnie was made of her ain hair or other folk's.

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

I out like a jer-falcon, and cried — “Wad they shoot an honest woman’s poor innocent bairn?”

Waverley 2004