Sentence examples for rabbie from inspiring English sources

With some notable exceptions, ranging from Virginia Woolf and Ho Chi Minh to Tony Blair and Georg Lukacs, a Marxist critic, people gave up on Scott.The Scots, who had once gushed that "Cervantes has done much for Spain and Shakespeare for England, but not a tithe of what Sir Walter Scott has accomplished for us," now rejected Scott and turned to Rabbie Burns as their literary hero.

The celebrations on January 25th this year will be particularly vigorous for they mark the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Rabbie, as Scotland's bard is known in his homeland.Even in an off year, Burns suppers require much whisky-quaffing.

Whisky, lampshades, wallpaper and laser cut bricks… Rabbie Burns is on a roll.

A smooth, golden, oaky Scottish drop that's great post-dinner or as a toast for Rabbie himself.

If you're having a Burns Night celebration (or just toasting Rabbie in your living room) make sure you do it in style.

Other Celtic customs were described in Rabbie Burns' poem, Halloween, in which fairies dance on a moonlit night while youths go out to the countryside, singing songs, telling spooky tales and jokes, or partaking in fortune-telling games; such as eating apples while looking in mirrors and that way creating a magic spell to reveal the face of a future love.

The poet, also known as Rabbie Burns, is famous for his creative literary works and wrote more than 550 poems and songs before his death in 1796, at the age of 37 after suffering from rheumatic fever.

He then went further and used the Scottish poet Rabbie Burns's famous line dismissing those Scots who signed the Treaty of Union, deriding all those in the coalition government as "a parcel of rogues".

And as one of the tale end doing the maiden speech of my colleagues in the SNP I've noticed that my colleagues quite often mention Rabbie Burns a lot and they all try to form this intrinsic connection between him and their own constituency and own him for themselves.

But incredibly, with 350,000 extras in the capital, some of the best live bands, and snow swirling round Princes Street, BBC Scotland spends three-quarters of its transmission time in the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle, with David Essex murdering Rabbie Burns in front of around 50 invited guests.

"At least when it's your wife, you don't go to the hospital until the wife's in labor," said Harry Rabbie, a BBC cameraman and father of two who spent much of Wednesday slumped inside the makeshift journalists' refugee camp on the street outside St .Mary's, passing the time with a romance novel titled "The Tycoon's Seductive Revenge".