"A bawbee, eke a farthin, is the hail value o't.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
As a woman of business she was shrewd, with all a Scotchwoman's power of looking at both sides of a bawbee before she spent it, but she was also extraordinarily generous in a very simple and unostentatious way, and her hospitality was boundless.
"My War Experiences in Two Continents"
Sarah Macnaughtan
In order that I might render still more effective service to the cause of humanity, I wrote, immediately after my appointment as surgeon, to an intimate friend, north of the Tweed, offering my services as war correspondent to a paper of which he was editor, namely, the Scottish bawbee.
"In the Track of the Troops"
R.M. Ballantyne