Here and there one meets with a distinctly Highland picture-in the deep dark glens down Moffatdale, for instance, but in the main they exhibit "the sonsie, good-humoured, buirdly look," for which Dr. "Rab" Brown expressed the liveliest predilection.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
"He's a waesome sicht the nicht, but Saunders wes a buirdly man aince, and wull never lat his life be taken lichtly frae him.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
But happen he may pull through, and he's a fine-made, buirdly young chap, so if you mean to back him, Mr. Wilson- Which I do.
"The Green Flag"
Arthur Conan Doyle