The name, as now written, is unseemly, but it is not so bad in the original Erse, which is Mouach, signifying the Sows 'Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]

The name, as now written, is unseemly, but is not so bad in the original Erse, which is MOUACH, signifying the Sows’ Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

I asked one of the guides, who questioned her in Erse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

Helgi was Raforta, the daughter of Kjarval, the Erse King.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

She was dressed in tartan, and could speak nothing but Erse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

He had by this time acquired a good deal of the Erse language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

One of our guides asked her, in Erse, if a shilling was enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

Erse, together with a translation of it in English verse, by Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

Ree in Erse being King, as Re is in Italian; so it is Port-Royal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

Erse, although every intonation and gesture was replete with passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference

Upon being told there was not, he sung an Erse song with much vivacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

Before it has disappeared the real British, the Cymric or Welsh, Erse or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

He said, he could never get the meaning of an Erse song explained to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

There are Polish newspapers, and Armenian, and Hebrew, and Erse and Gaelic.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference

Has this language, older than Erse, older than Sanscrit, ever got translated?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference

Rab replied in Erse, but the spirit did not seem to understand this language.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Yet all of our company who understood Erse, seemed charmed with the original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

Over the room where we sat, a girl was spinning wool with a great wheel, and singing, an Erse song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

Malcolm sung an Erse song, the chorus of which was ‘Hatyin foam foam eri’, with words of his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

(Malcolm said, he would come to it), and have a printing-press, where he would print all the Erse that could be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

German, French, or English; and the cracking of skulls in Ireland is introduced as easily in English as it was in Erse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference

Lord ASHBOURNE made sundry observations in Erse, one of which was understood to be that "Ireland could afford to wait.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920] Reference

Distractions, rookshooting, the Erse language (he recited some), laudanum (he raised the phial to his lips), camping out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

He had the support, too, of one of those imaginative savants who delight in Welsh, Erse and Gaelic philology, who insisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

‘I take it,’ said he, ‘Erse songs are like a song which I remember: it was composed in Queen Elizabeth’s time, on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

Here it is performed by women, who kneel upon the ground, and rub it with both their hands, singing an Erse song all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

The mother of Herdisa Thord's daughter was Thorgerda Skidi's daughter, her mother was Fridgerda, a daughter of Kjarval, the Erse King.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

Erse or Gaelic, the Welsh and the Picts being termed "P" Celts, and the other races "Q" Celts, because in words of the same meaning the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference

There is I think a kirk, in which only the Erse language is used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference

To show his contempt for danger, the royal wanderer sang a lively Erse song.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference

They talked in their own language with fluent vivacity, and sang many Erse songs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure] Reference

Then Rab said he tried him wi 'Erse, for he cam in his youth frae the braes of Glenlivat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference

I will, with great pleasure, join you in learning Welsh and Erse: and you, I, Turner, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference

The cook was expressing herself in Norwegian, the parlour-maid in what appeared to be Erse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uneasy Money] Reference

Parts may perhaps be found two hundred years hence and translated into Erse by some inverted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference

What answer was given them, the conversation being in Erse, I was not much inclined to examine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference

He complained of "the dark dialect of Anglified Erse," but found comfort in the glossary appended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference