plainstones

As it appeared, he had only known the safe plainstones of Dumfries -- so at least Mary Lyon thought.

The Dew of Their Youth 1887

Two days after, when we were sitting at our comfortable four-hours, in came little Benjie, running out of breath -- just at the individual moment of time my wife and me were jeering one another, about how we would behave when we came to be grand ladies and gentlemen, keeping a flunkie maybe -- to tell us, that when he was playing at the bools, on the plainstones before the old kirk, he had seen the deaf and dumb spaewife harled away to the tolbooth, for stealing a pair of trowsers that were hanging drying on a tow in Juden Elshinder's back close.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Two days after, when we were sitting at our comfortable four-hours, in came little Benjie, running out of breath -- just at the dividual moment of time my wife and me were jeering one another, about how we would behave when we came to be grand ladies and gentlemen, keeping a flunkie maybe -- to tell us, that when he was playing at the bools, on the plainstones before the old kirk, he had seen the deaf and dumb spaewife harled away to the tolbooth, for stealing a pair of trowsers that were hanging drying on a tow in Juden Elshinder's back close.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

Yet when I saw him on the plainstones by the English harbour I knew that he was a weapon made for my hand. "

The Path of the King John Buchan 1907