Citations:tod


 * 1806, Popular ballads and songs (page 245)
 * The tod ran yowlin’ frae the brae, The wood‐wolf frae the hill ; And nickering up the glen they hear A wier‐horse loud and shill.


 * 1819, The Poems & Songs of Robert Burns (page 418)
 * Daddy Auld ‡, Daddy Auld, there’s a tod in the fauld, A tod meikle waur than the Clerk ; Tho’ ye can do little skaith, ye’ll be in at the death, And gif ye canna bite, ye may bark.


 * 1821, Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect (page 111)
 * Lang may ye herd yer pickle sheep, An’ frae the hungry tod them keep ; An’ when death in yer bower sall peep, May’t bring good news, An’ ye, like Stephen, fa’ asleep Wi’ the same views !


 * 1839, The Carthusian (volumes 2, page 418)
 * To him a flower garden is a waste and a wilderness, a thing “ scentless and dead ;” and a tod’s hole an Eden rife with Sabæan odours.


 * 1842, Popular Rhymes, Fireside Stories, and Amusements of Scotland (page 52)
 * And they gaed, and they gaed, and they gaed, till they came to a wood, and there they met a tod. And the tod says, “Where are you gaun the day, goosie‐poosie, ducky‐daddles, cocky‐locky, henny‐penny?”


 * 1853, An Historical Romance (page 92)
 * Ah, hinnie, it was a dowie place ; the Water‐hole of the town‐guard is a king’s chamber in comparison ; it is black, damp, and slimy as a tod’s den.


 * 1871, Winter Evening Tales (page 219)
 * A fine story, faith! that he would be with ony o’ the maids, an’ kens the gate here! deil tak’ him, gin I catch him here again hingin’ o’er my bairn, like a hungry tod o’er a weel‐nursed lamb, an’ I dinna pu’ the harrigalds out of him!”