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• This noyes, when the Duc [of Lennox] being in the town, hard, and ludgit in the Hie-gat, luiked out and saw, he rave his berde for anger, and hasted him af the town The peace of the Church was short-lived. —  Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
• Six winters did Olaf sojourn thus in Eistland Sigurd Eirikson had come unto Eistland as an emissary of Valdamar King of Holmgard (Novgarod) to collect the tribute belonging to the King & he travelled as a man of wealth with many folk much beladen in his train Now it chanced that in the marketplace his eye lit on a certain fine boy whom he knew could not be of the country, & asking him his name gat for answer that he was called Olaf and his father Tryggvi Olafson and his mother Astrid, the daughter of Eirik Biodaskalli. —  The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)
• Moreover, before steam made coast traffic independent of wind, the sand-banks outside the roads were a great source of profit to the beach men, who went off in their long yawls to such craft as "missed stays" coming through a "gat," or managed to run aground on one of the sand-banks in some way or other. —  Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"
• Now if you'll just cover friend chef with this sawed-off gat, Elliot, I'll throw the diamond hitch over what supplies we'll need to get back to Kamatlah. —  The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North
• That would be just kid foolhardiness You think I'd better buy another automatic gat," said Elliot with a grin I think you had better use a little sense, Gordon. —  The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North

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