re tall and of "genteel" build.

Langest at the fire soonest finds cauld.

Lang fasting gathers wind.

Lang fasting hains nae meat.

Lang leal, lang poor.

Lang lean maks hamald cattle.

That is, poorly kept cattle makes homely, domestic, or common meat.

Lang look'd for come at last.

Lang mint, little dint.

"Much ado about nothing."

Lang noses are aye taking till them.

Lang or ye saddle a foal.

Lang or you cut Falkland wood wi' a pen-knife.

Spoken when people enter into extensive undertakings without
sufficient preparations or means.

Lang sick, soon weel.

Lang sport turns aft to earnest.

Lang standing and little offering maks a poor priest.

"Lang straes are nae motes," quo' the wife when she haul'd the cat out
o' the kirn.

Lang tarrowing taks a' the thanks awa.

"He loses his thanks that promises, but delays."--_English._

Lang-tongued wives gang lang wi' bairn.

"Applied to those who discover their projects, designs, and
intentions long before they are put in execution."--_Kelly._

Lasses and glasses are bruckle ware.

Lassies are like lamb-legs: they'll neither saut nor keep.

Lassies now-a-days ort nae God's creatures.

"The proverbial reflection of an old woman, as signifying that in
our times young women are by no means nice in their choice of
husbands."--_Jamieson._

Last to bed, best heard.

Laugh and lay't down again.

Laugh at leisure, ye may greet ere night.

Laugh at your ain toom pouches.

"'The japanned tea-caddie, Hannah--the best bohea--bid Tib kindle a
spark of fire--the morning's damp--draw in the giggling faces of ye,
ye d--d idle scoundrels, or laugh at your ain toom pouches--it will
be lang or your weel-doing fill them.' This was spoken, as the
honest lawyer himself might have said, _in transitu_."--_St Ronan's
Well._

Law licks up a'.

"The Laird has been a true friend on our unhappy occasions, and I
have paid him back the siller for Effie's misfortune, whereof Mr
Nichil Novit returned him no balance, as the Laird and I did expect
he wad hae done. But law licks up a', as the common folk say. I have
had the siller to borrow out o' sax purses."--_Heart of Midlothian._

Law-makers shouldna be law-breakers.

Law's a deadly distemper amang friends.

Law's costly: tak a pint and gree.

"How easy can the barley bree
Cement the quarrel!