"Tak' a drap o' whuskey, Jean, ye're flyin' oot o' yer HEID.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Richard never, never would-" "He may ha' been oot o' his HEID thinkin' he pushed him over the brink.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
But there's times and seasons, as the gude Buik says, and it wud hae been an awfu' like business tae luik at a gless in Marget's gairden, and puir Domsie standing in ahent the brier bush as if he cud never lift his HEID again.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren