Crossword-Solution: BROO 4 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The girl started back, with her ‘Don’t ya look so now--don’t ye, for love’s sake--you be as like the ould squoire as--But here a comes,’ she said, huddling away out of the room; ‘and if you want a third, there is none but ould Harry, as I know of, that can match ye for a brent broo!’ As the girl muttered this exclamation, and hastened out of the room, Herries entered.

What! are ye ower grand to give me an answer, or are ye dull o’ hearing?’ ‘I prithee drink thy liquor, friend,’ said the good Quaker; ‘thou meanest it in civility, but we care not for these idle fashions.’ ‘What! ye are a Quaker, are ye?’ said Peter; and without further ceremony reared the flagon to his head, from which he withdrew it not while a single drop of ‘barley-broo’ remained.

The old lady gave a kind of Scotch guttural sound expressive of disappointment, and said, "I'll no say but I've seen the like beetle-broo.

But Mistress Skirving did not look in the least put out; only she was discreetly silent for a minute or two after her husband had spoken, as was her wont, and then she proceeded: "Aye, brawly I kenned Gilbert Peden, when he used to come in at that door, wi' his black curls ower his broo as crisp an' bonny as his son's the day." Winsome looked at the door with an air of interest.

Ohon! that I suld live to be ca'd sae," she continued, bursting into tears, "and me a born servant o' the house o' Tillietudlem! I am sure they belie baith Cuddie and me sair, if they said he wadna fight ower the boots in blude for your leddyship and Miss Edith, and the auld Tower--ay suld he, and I would rather see him buried beneath it, than he suld gie way--but thir ridings and wappenschawings, my leddy, I hae nae broo o' them ava.