blowing

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Thae loons cried out to me as they gaed by that he has been blawing awa’ at that tune till he canna halt.

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

In "Redgauntlet," again, he makes, as Alan Fairford, a return on his youth and his home, and in "Rob Roy" he revives his Highland recollections, his Highland lairds of "the blawing, bleezing stories."

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

I am on the wrang side o' three and thirty, and I would snap my fingers at it, were it blawing its breath in my face as snell as a drift on an open moor!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various

“Ay,” said Spens, “and to tak’ credit for that may be like blawing that you’re ower honest to wear claethes.”

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

I'll never forgit how we were pelted the other day—such firing of stones, such blawing of horns!

From Muslin by Moore, George (George Augustus)