Crossword-Solution: BIRSE 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Tibbie Birse in the Burial is great, but I think it was a journalist that got in the word ‘official.’ The same character plainly had a word to say to Thomas Haggard.

One may gossip in a glen on Sabbaths, though not in a town, without losing his character, and I used to await the return of my neighbour, the farmer of Waster Lunny, and of Silva Birse, the Glen Quharity post, at the end of the school-house path.

But I canna get in a word wi' that man o' mine." "We've been speaking about it," said Birse, "ever since we left the kirk door.

His face was as white as a baker's, and he had a sort of fallen against the back o' the pulpit, staring demented-like at his open Bible." "And I saw him," said Birse, "put up his hand atween him and the Book, as if he thocht it was to jump at him." "Twice," said Elspeth, "he tried to speak, and twice he let the words fall." "That," says Waster Lunny, "the whole congregation admits, but I didna see it mysel', for a' this time you may picture me hunting savage-like for Ezra.

Whaur has he got sic a knowledge of women? He riddled them, he fair riddled them, till I was ashamed o' being married." "It's easy kent whaur he got his knowledge of women," Birse explained, "it's a' in the original Hebrew.