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  • I've heard it a. It wisnae they bliddy capitalists gie'd you a the weans, wis it?

    'Men Should Weep' marvels Paul Levy 2010

  • 'I heard one o' the fourth-year classes gie'd him a right session as well. '

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • If you'd gie'd us a story aboot him cuttin 'doon trees in his garden, or shootin' rabbits or somethin ', we'd have been sorted.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • If you'd gie'd us a story aboot him cuttin 'doon trees in his garden, or shootin' rabbits or somethin ', we'd have been sorted.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • If you'd gie'd us a story aboot him cuttin 'doon trees in his garden, or shootin' rabbits or somethin ', we'd have been sorted.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • I says I need a copy as well, but he gie'd me more shite about orders from above.

    Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

  • "Maxwelltown braes are bonny, where early fa's the dew, and 'twas there that Annie Laurie gie'd me her promise true."

    Every living thing Herriot, James 1992

  • Upon leaving his master, after paying a short visit to his native parish, he gie'd awa 'to the city o' Glasgow, to begin the warld for himself.

    The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

  • He gie'd ae bitter groan, an 'wad hae fa'n to the earth had'na a kind neebor supported him.

    The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

  • She kent onyway, and it was for no ither reason she gie'd him the route, unless -- unless she had a notion o 'the Frenchman frae the first glisk o' him.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

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