What is "partan"

Usage examples of "partan".

Even Mrs Partan, as he alone called her, was his true friend: no intensity of friendship could have kept her from scolding.

Malcolm was not the only one who knew him: Lizzy Findlay, only daughter of the Partan, and the prettiest girl in the company, blushed crimson: she had danced with him at Lossie House, and he had said things to her, by way of polite attention, which he would never have said had she been of his own rank.

Hij was in gedachten de reis al aan het plannen, misschien halverwege Partan, na de regentijd.

In die tijd zou hij niet de rivier op kunnen varen om hen te bezoeken, maar hij zou terugkeren aan het begin van Partan en hen dan meenemen naar de stad.

It gave me the impression of a disordered mechanism which had escaped the repressive and regulating action of some controlling partan effect such as might be expected if a pawl should be jostled from the teeth of a ratchet-wheel.

No doubt an important partan engine, a key circuitbut in no case apart from the mechanism, as is often fallaciously assumed.

Professor Anthony Lammas as before, the man that keeps the Senatus in order and guides my erring steps in the paths of logic and good taste, and Nanty Lammas will be left among the partans and haddies and tarpots of Pittenweem.