Crossword-Solution: NANE 4 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

For there was Janet comin’ doun the clachan—her or her likeness, nane could tell—wi’ her neck thrawn, and her heid on ae side, like a body that has been hangit, and a girn on her face like an unstreakit corp.

Witness, were it alone, this verse:— “Here’s freedom to him that wad read, Here’s freedom to him that wad write; There’s nane ever feared that the truth should be heard But them wham the truth wad indite.” Yet his enthusiasm for the cause was scarce guided by wisdom.

Aft whan I sat an’ made my mane, Aft whan I laboured burd-alane Fishin’ for rhymes an’ findin’ nane, Or nane were fit for ye— Ye judged me cauld’s a chucky stane— No car’n’ a bit for ye! But saw ye ne’er some pingein’ bairn As weak as a pitaty-par’n’— Less üsed wi’ guidin’ horse-shoe airn Than steerin’ crowdie— Packed aff his lane, by moss an’ cairn, To ca’ the howdie.

But come awa’ cummers; if we bide here, I’se warrant we get the wyte o’ whatever ill comes of it, and that gude will come of it nane o’ them need ever think to see.” And thus, croaking like the ravens when they anticipate pestilence, the ill-boding sibyls withdrew from the churchyard.

Upon my soul it is the kind of death I always wanted.” And he quoted softly to himself a verse of an old Scots ballad: “Mony’s the ane for him maks mane, But nane sall ken whar he is gane.