parritch ScoE

He let me go, and went back to his parritch.

Just as though she were asking did I have parritch to my breakfast!"

"A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again."

"Eat up your parritch every morning, and ye'll never have piles."

Those who are most ill cannot readily digest the bread and parritch.

"My mind was boiling over like a pot of parritch on the flame, yet I held to that thought.

Faint memories swam about in the parritch that filled his head, too vague to grasp.

I prefer a good dish of oatmeal parritch, myself."

"We'll ha' the footman bring ye out your parritch on a silver tray."

I sat up straight, pushing back the bowl of parritch which I had been eyeing with something less than enthusiasm.

I doubted she ate any vegetable matter beyond the occasional onion or potato, save her daily parritch.

We'd get a bit of parritch now and then from a crofter's cottage, but those folk are so poor themselves there's seldom anything to spare.

Ye micht think I cam for the parritch, an' no for the prayers.

"I dinna see how ye'd ever grind them in a quern for bread or parritch."

"I like parritch," Lizzie put in shyly, in a minor attempt to change the subject.

Dougal advised me finally to save my breath to cool my parritch with, and after that we rode in silence.

Each man was given, by law, a quart of oatmeal parritch and a small wheaten loaf each day.

Murtagh glanced up coldly from his parritch.

I don't know if I mean that, exactly,' he said, spooning in his own parritch in a businesslike way.

"Ye can eat that drop parritch?"

Jem smelled of parritch, toast, and honey, a homely warm and heavy weight in his arms.

"Got their parritch back?

On parritch, mostly," she added.

"We knew as there was meant to be parritch," MacLeod explained, "for Fergus did say so, when he asked us to come.

Murtagh's eyes dropped to the bowl of parritch that Mrs Crook had thrust unceremoniously under his nose.