But as they contrived to represent the action as a rash deed committed by "the daft callant Rob," to which they were not accessory, the jury found their accession to the crime was Not Proven.
I was vexed exceedingly to see the callant in this dilemmy, for he was growing very tall and thin, his chaft-blades being lank and white, and his eyes of a hollow drumliness, as if he got no refreshment from the slumbers of the night.
One would not have imagined, that such a sincere friendship could have taken root in such a short time; but the bit creature Benjie was as warm-hearted a callant as ye ever saw.
In the course of a fortnight from the time I parted with Maister Glen, the Lauder carrier, limping Jamie, brought his callant to our shop-door in his hand.
Weel, weel; there was a callant here no' sae lang syne, speering after ye.
He made an ass of himself at the Waterfoot, and his stupidity would have let three or four people drown if Young Islay, a callant better than himself had not put out a boat and rescued them.
This is a queer callant you've brought us here," said the Cornal, nudging his brother and nodding in Gilian's direction.
Ae nicht wha should come in but a Cairn Edward callant that served his time wi' Maxwell in the Advertiser office.
I remember it, but cannot tell what year it was, for I was but a little bilsh of a callant then.
Twas time I was here to guide ye too, my lord; you and the callant baith look sair forfaughten.
But what's this puir callant to do, that you were set upon rearing upon your books at Windsor?
Even this sackless callant thought it shame to see two honest men baulked.
I am not the silly fecklesscallant I once was, Patie,' answered Malcolm.
Ye were a canty callant too, Maister Francie, and muckle ado I had to keep ye baith in order when ye were on the ramble.
She had lingered till she saw the last of their company rescued from danger, and until she had been assured by the hoarse voice of Mucklebackit, that "the callant had come off wi' unbrizzed banes, and that he was but in a kind of dwam.
She was little like it that night she gaed away greetin wi' the callant on her back!
To think of a callantbeing keeped there, out of the knowledge of his ain country, and it a country like this!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "callant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
