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Example sentences for "callants"

Lexicographically close words:
calking; calks; call; calla; callant; callate; callated; calld; called; calledst
  1. Saunders, when you should have had a bit cheery fire in the ingle for the drookit school-callants to dry themselves at, instead of dreaming with the bellows on your knee, and the fire black out?

  2. Ye are ane of the folk that gang about yonder setting folk by the lugs, as callants set their collies to fight.

  3. It was thae cockle-brained callants of the present day that would be mair owerta'en with a puir quart than douce folk were with a magnum.

  4. The bicker had long since commenced, stones from sling and hand were flying; but the callants of the New Town were now carrying everything before them.

  5. The callants not only employed their hands in hurling stones, but not unfrequently slings; at the use of which they were very expert, and which occasionally dislodged teeth, shattered jaws, or knocked out an eye.

  6. The ill-set callants o' the Clearin' Hoose tries whiles to provoke him.

  7. Now and then, on Sundays, one of these Glasgow callants would steal out, at the risk of discovery and dismissal, to see the Netherby lasses.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "callants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.