What is "soutar"

Usage examples of "soutar".

For the soutar absolutely believed in the Lord of Life, was always trying to do the things he said, and to keep his words abiding in him.

The soutar always worked in the kitchen, to be near his daughter, whose presence never interrupted either his work or his thought, or even his prayers--which often seemed as involuntary as a vital automatic impulse.

Maggie humbly but confidently making her request had it as kindly granted, and followed her to the barn to fill her pock with the light plumy covering of the husk of the oats, the mistress of Stonecross helping her the while and talking to her as she did so--for the soutar and his daughter were favourites with her and her husband, and they had not seen either of them for some while.

But she remembered also that she had never heard the soutar on his side make any attempt to lay open to the boy his stores of what one or two in the place, one or two only, counted wisdom and knowledge.

His faith, therefore, did not prevent him from looking upon the soutar, who believed only in the God he saw in Jesus Christ, as one in a state of rebellion against him whom Jesus claimed as his father.

CHAPTER IV The soutar was still meditating on things spiritual, still reading the gospel of St.

They had long and heartily loved and honoured the soutar, whom they had known before the death of his wife, and for his sake and hers, both had always befriended the motherless Maggie.

Man and equipage, both well known to the soutar, had come with an invitation, more pressing than usual, that Maggie would pay them a visit of a few days.

Father and daughter, consulting together in the presence of Andrew Cormack, arrived at the conclusion that, work being rather slacker than usual, and nobody in need of any promised job which the soutar could not finish by himself in good time, Maggie was quite at liberty to go.

The soutar rose from his stool, received him like Simeon taking the infant Jesus from the arms of his mother, and held him high like a heave-offering to him that had sent him forth from the hidden Holiest of Holies.

But the soul of the soutar would venture far into the twilight, searching after the things of God, opening wider its eyes, as the darkness widened around them.

But the minister went away intent on classifying the soutar by finding out with what sect of the middle-age mystics to place him.

Something which he called his own religious sense appeared to know something of what the soutar must mean, though he could neither isolate nor define it.

How should such a one ever see God--ever exist in the same region in which the soutar had long taken up his abode?

Maggie and the baby, in both of whom, having heard from the soutar the story of the child, he took a growing interest.