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Thread #10742   Message #561270
Posted By: DMcG
29-Sep-01 - 05:35 AM
Thread Name: Best single lines PART TWO
Subject: RE: Best single lines PART TWO
From a scottish ballad called 'The Bonny Birdie' which is a little Matty-Groves-ish

Then he's darked her windows up secure wi' muckle sugar stane

This is while the lord is bricking the wife into her room after killing her lover. To 'dark' a window is a brilliant invented verb, IMHO