An auld blin' body like me disna fa' in wi' saxpences whan she gangs luikin aboot wi' her lang fingers for a Pirn or a prin that she's looten fa'."
"Alec Forbes of Howglen"
George MacDonald
It was my grandfather who had come in, his face bronzed with the sun and a friendly shaving tucked underneath his coat collar at the back, witnessing that some one of his sons, in the labours of the Pirn-mill, had not remembered the first commandment with promise.
"The Dew of Their Youth"
S. R. Crockett
Thou art under watch and ward down at the Pirn-mill of Marnhoul!
"The Dew of Their Youth"
S. R. Crockett