You can imagine, too, the consternation of the peaceful inmates of the open pools, whose laughter had now and then risen above the sough of the wind and splash of the water.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
A sough went throughout the parish, that Simon Begley-or, as the folks ca'ed him, with a humorous application to his craft, that of procurator-fiscal o' the county, Beagle-was busy takin a precognition with a view to layin the case before the Lord Advocate.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
'It's meeserable wark for Christ's Elder,' says Jeems, 'tae put the fear o' death on a bairn, and a'm thinkin' he wudna get muckle thanks frae his Maister if He wes here,' and Jeems wasna far wrong, though, of course, a' told him tae keep a quiet sough, and no conter the elder.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren