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I cared not a "bodle" for the company of the misses: Nay, though there was a boarding-school in the village, and though we used to meet with its fair inmates at

The Monastery Walter Scott 1801

Before the door of Saunders Jaup, a feuar of some importance, “who held his land free, and caredna a bodle for any one,” yawned that odoriferous gulf, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jawhole; in other words, an uncovered common sewer.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

I cared not a “bodle” for the company of the misses: Nay, though there was a boarding-school in the village, and though we used to meet with its fair inmates at Simon

The Monastery 2008

Miss Clara does not merit respect and kindness at your hand; but I doubt mickle if she wad care a bodle for thae braw things.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

BODDLE, bodle, a copper coin, worth one third of an English penny.

Waverley 2004

In which respect, not any one daring to displease her, shee went with the dead bodle to the Seigneurie, there to answere all Objections.

The Decameron 2004

The race o 'them never brocht ocht in my generation to puir Scotland worth a bodle, unless it micht be a new fricassee to fyle a stamach wi'.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

"You can wadger your henmist bodle on that," says Sandy, as he took a rive ooten a penny lafe.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

M'lver was most frantic about the business, and I think I was cool, for I was never a person that cared a bodle about my history bye the second generation.

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

The Provost looked anew upon the careless, intrepid young Northumbrian, who seemed not to care a bodle for his imminent fate.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease