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  • Ance sae glossy and black, like the wing o 'the craw;

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • Ance mair then, Nelly Brown, I hae sung o 'love and thee,

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • Ance I sat here on a could day in April; the ice had gane off the bar, but the flats were yet covered, and I knew that until the win 'changed the ice would not be carried off.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • Ance a man-child has beaten his way to life under the heart of a woman, she is mither to all men, for the hearts of mithers are everywhere the same.

    Freckles 1904

  • Ance a woman is the wife of any man, she becomes wife to all men for having had the wifely experience she kens!

    Freckles 1904

  • Ance ye begin on this, ye'll no be willin 'to tak' your nose o 'it till bedtime, and I willna get my work done the nicht.

    Freckles 1904

  • Ance he got up a hame for gaen-aboot dogs, an 'he had naethin' to mak 'by that.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • Ance a woman is the wife of any man, she becomes wife to all men for having had the wifely experience she kens!

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • Ance ye begin on this, ye'll no be willin 'to tak' your nose o 'it till bedtime, and I willna get my work done the nicht.

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • Ance a man-child has beaten his way to life under the heart of a woman, she is mither to all men, for the hearts of mithers are everywhere the same.

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

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