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  • The he says, wiv a voice gar'd me trimmle, aw's shure

    The Skipper's Dream 2000

  • And there's been things now and again, John Broom, that's gar'd me think that ye've had what I had, and done as I did.

    Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

  • "Aiblins that's what gar'd him grow sae unco wise," David ended.

    Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

  • God curse my sister Margot and the day she gar'd me carry the letters!

    Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • "I'st true Elspeth scuffled wi 'her feet at the laist head and gar'd him close?"

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

  • ` ` I wot weel, Mr. Wauverley, and that was she e'en; but sair, sair angry and affronted wad she hae been, puir thing, if she had thought ye had been ever to ken a word about the matter; for she gar'd me speak aye Gaelic when ye was in hearing, to mak e trow we were in the Hielands.

    The Waverley 1877

  • And there's been things now and again, John Broom, that's gar'd me think that ye've had what I had, and done as I had.

    Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough 1873

  • Ochiltree, ` ` I wad fain ken, Monkbarns, what has gar'd ye plague yoursell wi 'me a' this length?

    The Antiquary 1845

  • ` ` Silly auld doited carles! '' said Mrs. Shortcake; ` ` what gar'd them gang to the douking in a night like yestreen! ''

    The Antiquary 1845

  • ` ` Alarm? '' said Edie, ` ` troth there's alarm, for the provost's gar'd the beacon light on the Halket-head be sorted up (that suld hae been sorted half a year syne) in an unco hurry, and the council hae named nae less a man than auld Caxon himsell to watch the light.

    The Antiquary 1845

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