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  • "Now, a've a wumman to home, to say naething o 'three bairns --"

    CHAPTER 24 2010

  • 'A've thocht that masel' -- it was an agony for Drumsheugh to speak -- 'a've thocht that masel mair than aince.

    A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Frank Boreham 1915

  • Ay, a 'ken fine aboot the toor o' Siloam, and aboot the toor o 'Babel as weel; an' a've read, too, about the blaspheemious Herod, an 'sic like.

    Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898

  • "Now, a've a wumman to home, to say naething o 'three bairns --"

    A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896

  • 'Noa, -- a' know yo doan't understan; a've got to tell tha -- 'at's t' worst part on 't.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • 'An then theer's nowt moor as a can remember, -- an your aunt ull be wearyin; an it's but reet she should know now, at wonst, abeawt t' money a've saved this four year, an t 'letter to Mr. Gurney.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • Man, a've often thocht it was the prospeck o 'the Schule

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

  • A've cause tae be gratefu 'for a guid memory, and a've kept it in fine fettle wi' sermons.

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

  • 'Doctor, I daurna prophesy till we turn him into the Latin, but a've my thoughts.'

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

  • "Shut the buik an 'let it open itsel, an' ye 'ill get a bit a've been readin' every nicht the laist month."

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

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