ajee

• “Scotchman would have said, “His bonnet was a thocht ajee.””

  The Mysterious Island

• “Mucklewrath; his brain was a wee ajee, but he was a braw preacher for”

  Old Mortality

• “The roots come sometimes under the walls and below the old tombstones and set them ajee upon their bases, but wanting those tall and overhanging companions, the yard, I feel, would be ugly and incomplete.”

  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure

• “His wig, whiles it 's aff, and when on, it 's ajee;”

  The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century

• “I noticed I was opposite the house of a poor old woman they called Black Kate, whose door was ever the target in my young days for every lad that could brag of a boot-toe, and I saw that the shutter, hanging ajee on one hinge, was thrown open against the harled wall of the house.”

  John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

• “This was ower true, and Sandie was a wee thing set ajee.”

  David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.

• “Only my daft auld brain must have been a wee ajee.”

  The Christian A Story

• “` ` Ye are right, Mr. Owen --- ye are right; ye speak weel and wisely; and I trust bowls will row right, though they are a wee ajee e'enow.”

  Rob Roy

• “I had no notion of effacin 'myself, so I stepped outside o' the door, leavin 'it ajee, an' a-settin 'myself where I could look an' listen quite comfortable.”

  Dialect Tales

• “When the door was put ajee, and the furm set fornent the fire, I gave”

  The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself

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