Sentence examples for A laddie from inspiring English sources

Just as millions of years of evolution have had a minimal effect on our primitive instincts, give a laddie civilisation, education, emigration and integration and he's still a tartan troglodyte.

His son ended up that rare contemporary figure: an unironic, unsentimental optimist, one who can write a poem called "To 'Yes, an ode to the affirmative aspect of life -- Yes to the finality of the brightness / And to the enduring qualities of the lark -- and not seem like a silly laddie for a second.

"I was a young laddie the last time at France '98 so it would be a special place for every Scotland fan.

Because we've asked the experts... "Aye, storm's a comin', laddie!

"He is a nervous laddie, so what I tell Brathwaite is to just hold his pose and he's going to bowl a couple of full tosses, as always, and it will work in our favour.

"The New Tom Green Show" is MTV's first foray into the world of late-night comedy shows, and needless to say the show has a decidedly laddie feel, more Maxim than GQ.

"He was a happy laddie, not depressed and the last type of person you would think would take their life.

His mother told reporters after his death: "He was a happy laddie, not depressed and the last type of person you would think would take their life... We're a very close family and I just wished he had come to me and said something".

"I'm just an ordinary laddie.

The man in charge of this division, David Brent (played by Ricky Gervais, who writes and directs "The Office" with Stephen Merchant), is the type of lower middle manager who wants to be both a dignified leader of men and a politically incorrect laddie.

In "The Canine Mutiny" (season eight, 1997), Bart uses a fake charge card to buy a well-trained rough collie named Laddie from a mail-order catalog.