chiel

• “The "chiel" among the agriculturists "taking notes" will be more likely to seduce than to warn; and if the record of his eventual triumphs be received as gospel truth, we must expect a vast emigration of the men of mind from the cities to the country.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864

• “My second "chiel" will take notes to the effect that while a friendly game of pinochle was in progress in the tenement rooms of Mrs. Andy”

  Rolling Stones

• “He did not think that a "chiel" was near, "taking notes," and will, doubtless, feel quite angry at having his character touched off in the ragged style of a slave's pen.”

  My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith.

• “If you will but look with that bonnie smile on the handsome chiel, who is to be here the day, you will do his business.”

  The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale

• ““What wonderful odds and ends that chiel has in his head to be sure!””

  Under the Greenwood Tree

• “I had no idea a chiel was taking notes down at quiet”

  A Pair of Blue Eyes

• “And ‘a told me that ‘a had it from his father when he was quite a chiel, who made use o’ en just the same at every killing more or less; and pig-killings were pig-killings in those days.’”

  A Pair of Blue Eyes

• “For there were a chiel cam ower the field, he min't ye on a arra ”

  Sheelicks

• “Glossary: sheelicks: husked grain riddle: sieve ben: in helster-howdie: from "heels ower gowdie"; head-over-heels teuchit: lapwing tint: lost barra-shaft: handle of a wheelbarrow chiel: man min't: reminded hurled: driven, carried, hauled marra: equal”

  Sheelicks

• “Noo, there was a chiel come ower the field, his name was Butter Scotty”

  Sheelicks

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