– the laird is about the house: and I am feared he will make some stramash when he sees ye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference

Your laird should be the only man to touch your hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ransom] Reference

The laird was a woman, Lady Hallim, a widow with a daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

"Aye, but the laird is the laird," said a more cautious one.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

They would be bold that would call the laird an old man, and Glendochart was three at least, maybe five years younger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference

It was an insult, and in some parts of the country it is so still, to call a laird by his personal, instead of his territorial, title.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]

He called your laird Brodick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ransom] Reference

He became a Scotch "laird" owning many acres, and a most beautiful home, Abbotsford.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference

Nobody, however, did come, and the "laird" had spent the evening by himself in very wretched solitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Redux] Reference

Boece tells us that a great tree was cast on shore, and was divided, by order of the "laird" of the ground, by means of a saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference

He is what is called here a "laird," a man of good family, a large landed proprietor, a zealous reformer, and a very devout man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1] Reference

"And there is no 'laird' here, and even if you count an ordinary owner of property as a 'laird,' you don't know where the boundaries are!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Princess of the School] Reference

“Sorry, lass, but the laird is the laird.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Much Ado About Marriage] Reference

"laird," like Randal's father, had been robbed by the neighbouring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Of Fairnilee] Reference

So the laird was a doctor?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man from the Clouds] Reference

The laird was the first to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1] Reference

What passed next with the laird can be but conjectured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

"Noo, laird, what are you gaun to do with the prisoner?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Speaking] Reference

His professions of friendship to the laird were unceasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference

"Do you warrant me free of scaith?" asked the young laird.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

The laird o 'Cockpen, he 's proud and he 's great, vol. i.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

George Wishart, a younger son or nephew of Sir James Wishart, laird of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference

Laurence Rankin, laird of Sheill, in the parish of Ochiltree, Ayrshire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference

When they turned again the laird had vanished, and they took their way homeward in sadness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

This quaint old house had been purchased by Mrs Brown's grandmother, mother of the laird of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

Almost the same instant, and as if he had issued from the ground, the laird stood before them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

Well, then, he's a grand laird, an 'if we lived with him you'd be a little laird, and me a lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

They dared not run for fear of terrifying him if it should be the laird, and hurried quietly to the spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

Meanwhile, during Margaret's absence, Angus had formed a connexion with a daughter of the laird of Traquair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

"laird, laird! they've ta'en awa 'Phemy, an' we dinna ken whaur to luik for her," cried the poor father aloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

"But about the daughter of the old laird: did she find a lover so strong as to carry her to the mountain-top?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

A story is told of the familiarity between the laird and his riding horse, which was well-fed and full of spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

He added wing after wing to his beautiful house, and acre after acre to his land, and rejoiced in being laird of Abbotsford.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

In some few of these islands, the laird and all the inhabitants remain still Catholics; as Banbecuis, under Ranal Mac Donald.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

It reminds me of the old Scotch woman's saying about her laird going to be beheaded for participation in a Jacobite rebellion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

Further, tradition puts the blame of the separation on William Lawrie, factor to the Marquis, often styled the laird of Blackwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference

Arrived at Frendraught, the laird and lady entreated the two young men to remain the night, and eventually prevailed on them to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference

Scotland and had reassumed his duties there as laird of the district, and when, later on, Death struck again, this time leaving his sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference