Louis Raincy was quick, impulsive, with fair Norse hair blown in what the country folk called a "Birse" about his face, and dark-blue western eyes-the eyes of the island MacBrydes who had built ships to ride the sea, and whose younger branches had captained and made fortunes out of far sea adventuring.
"Patsy"
S. R. Crockett
I wadna be in Yaspard Adiesen's shoes if he gets intil Mr. Neeven's Birse.
"Viking Boys"
Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
But it's thae new folk that pit up ma Birse.
"Penny Plain"
Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)