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  • The sicht o 'the puir wafilly budy akinda drave the fear awa frae me; an' I maskit a cup o 'tea, an' crackit awa till her till we got her cowshined doon.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • They pit mair pooder i 'quarry than common; and the ston' it split, and roared, and crackit, wi 'a noise like tha crack o' doom.

    Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • We have had crackit heids -- and rowth of them -- ere now; and we have had a broken leg or maybe twa; and the like of that we drover bodies make a kind of a practice like to keep among oursel's.

    St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The licht'nin 'cam oot o' the yerd, an 'no frae the lift at a'; the win 'roared as gien 't had been an incarnat rage; the thunner rattlet an' crackit, as gien the mune an 'a' the stars had been made kettledrums o 'for the occasion; but never a drap o' rain or a stane o 'hail fell; naething brak oot but blue licht an' roarin 'win'.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • He has mair sense than to ca 'anything about the bigging his ain, frae the rooftree down to a crackit trencher on the bink.

    The Antiquary 1845

  • Over and above all, the crock with the butter was, no one can tell how, crackit, and the pickle lecking out, and mixing with the seerip of the marmlet, spoilt the cheese.

    The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

  • He has mair sense than to ca 'anything about the bigging his ain, frae the rooftree down to a crackit trencher on the bink.

    The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • He has mair sense than to ca 'anything about the bigging his ain, frae the rooftree down to a crackit trencher on the bink.

    The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • Ay — ay — we maun a’ gang ae gate — crackit quart stoups and geisen’d barrels — leaky quaighs are we

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • "The heids crackit like nits when ye garred your staff sing.

    The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

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