"These include 'waesome', meaning sorrowful, woeful; and 'brash', meaning attack."
"Verra well, dinna ye think as hoo yon Irish whelp I skelpit the day 'll hae a waesome feelin' i 'his breist?"
"My hotel had some interesting inmates, for a poor young creature, borne in from one of the burning houses, became a mother during the night; and a stout little lassie opened its eyes upon this waesome world during the excitement and danger of a Gorgona conflagration."