Quotes About Bairn

She took me to a mall yesterday' Lachlain sounded as if he'd just stifled a shudder. And she pointed to a boy and said, 'I think I want one.' So naturally, I start thinking, Where can I get a wee mortal? But she meant a bairn— our bairn.

She brought in his dinner and stood looking at him while he helped himself—what was he but a bairn? Morag thought; all men were just big bairns, helpless and simple and easily pleased and—but this was not so fortunate—easily put out about small matters.

A child wailed, elsewhere in the house, and the Canon glanced at the maidservant and gestured at the door. 'Away and deal wi that bairn, Kirsty, and see if you canny keep it quieter.' 'Takes after his faither,' retorted Kirsty with a toss of her head,