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"I say to it what I have often said to a difficulty, what the old Scotch adage says of 'the stout heart to the stey brae.'"
From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James
The side was stey, and the bottom deep, Frae bank to brae the water pouring; The bonny grey mare she swat for fear, For she heard the water-kelpy roaring.
From The Book of Old English Ballads by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
But this wadna do; it taks a stout heart to face a stey brae—and Archy seemed to hae tint his athegither.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
The side was stey, and the bottom deep,Frae bank to brae the water pouring;And the bonny grey mare did sweat for fear,For she heard the water-kelpy roaring.
From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew
He laughed till he cried, and as we moved off shouted to me in the same language to "pit a stoot hert tae a stey brae".
From Greenmantle by Buchan, John
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