Sandy had in his pocket two coins -- a "bawbee", as the Scotch call it, a copper, and a gold sovereign.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British Commonwealth In a Bewildered World] Reference

So before me lies an old "bawbee" of my own home city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics: as Applied Sociology] Reference

Unfortunately Malcolm had no change; not a "bawbee.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

"De'il ane -- nor a bawbee," replied the freebooter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

I put a gold sovereign on the plate in mistake for a bawbee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British Commonwealth In a Bewildered World] Reference

But I can tell you it's no a bawbee-wirth o 'hair oil that sairs Sandy i' the week.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

I had been a hunted man on the edge of Moor Ran No ready to toss up a bawbee to learn whither my road should be.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

You'll never a be worth a bawbee o 'your own savin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference

Ye're like a Lauderdale bawbee, as bad as bad can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference

She's like mysel '-- she wad aye be turnin' a bawbee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

As for my family, I found it by the wayside like a lost bawbee!.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

"Hae than, there's fower an 'a bawbee for expenses o' the war.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

"But 'twas all tatters at the bottom, not worth a bawbee to mine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference

"I'll give you a bawbee for the sense of your words, Tim," answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of the Nets] Reference

"If Sam Houston's worth one bawbee, he'll stand here and give 'em a fight.".    From Wordnik.com.  [American Men of Action] Reference

“If Sam Houston's worth one bawbee, he'll stand here and give 'em a fight.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Men of Action]

I was only sure o 'your suspeecion, Weelyum, I'd invest every bawbee I have in't.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference

I was crackin 'yin or twa the noo aboot them that touch ye for a bawbee noo and then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between You and Me] Reference

Or a sma 'peddlin' crater that tak's a bawbee mair for rowin 'up the pigtail in a foul paper?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

My heart is knocking at my lips, and I'll be saying what I would give my last bawbee to unsay.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of the Nets] Reference

All that about Eunice or Essie, or whatever her name was, doesn't matter a bawbee, as you say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference

Tis strange thing enow to become used to it no to hea to count every bawbee before ye spend it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between You and Me] Reference

It wad but amuse a Scot; he'd no be carin 'one way or anither for the bawbee the stamp wad cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between You and Me] Reference

The sun shines to-day, and the funny wee mannie fra the inn is going to gie her a bawbee for goodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Game A Story for Girls] Reference

But they may cash his bills that will; I ken ane that will never advance a bawbee on ony paper that has.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Ronan's Well] Reference

She seemed to me to have spent all her days behind a counter, smirking thankfulness to bawbee customers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family] Reference

I did not like the man, but I was tired and had not plack nor bawbee, so I e'en asked him for the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scottish sketches] Reference

A laddie like the one I ha 'in mind would be seein' the auld folk countin 'every bawbee because they must.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between You and Me] Reference

"Gilian said I should na speir -- but, eh, Glenfernie, I wad gie mair than a bawbee to ken what you did to him!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Foes] Reference

James loaned it with an eager willingness, though he was usually very cautious and careful of every bawbee of his hard-earned money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scottish sketches] Reference

Out o 'place, and without a bawbee to bless himself with!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life] Reference

If Sam Houston is worth one bawbee, he will make a stand here, and give them a fight! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

"The charcoal you'd get's not worth a bawbee," he complained; "soft stuff would hardly run lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference