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  • A quarter mile doon, the wersh blinterin sun forced itsel in throu the UV filter gless at the corridor heid, illuminatin the faces an keek panels o the first fifty Omegas.

    Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • A quarter mile doon, the wersh blinterin sun forced itsel in throu the UV filter gless at the corridor heid, illuminatin the faces an keek panels o the first fifty Omegas.

    Links purge Ray Girvan 2004

  • Pass the gless roond wi 'ye, drink hersel blind note: At last, Davie Robertson makes it to Mudcat.

    Star o' the Bar 2000

  • It had but four lozens and yin wanted gless cho: 'Twas a bonny wee window, the handsome wee window

    The Bonny Wee Window 1954

  • They cudna bide i 'the hoose ony langer, an' i 'the warst o't a', they cam 'awa through a shoer o' sklates, an 'bricks, an' lum-cans, an 'gless, to see if we wud lat them in.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Ye mind she had a shooster shopie at the fit o 'Collie Park, an' she had a big lookin 'gless for her customers seeing hoo their frocks fitted.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Mester Blair had what they ca 'an opera gless wi' him, an 'he handed it to me to look throo.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Ay weel than, I set the gless juist up again 'the wa' at the end o 'the garret, firnent the fireplace an' it made the roomie real cantie an 'cheerie lookin'.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • "Weel, fetch me the gless, ma mon; fetch me the gless an 'aiblins we may catch a glint o' them through this smoorin 'snaw; though I doot it's the packet, as ye say."

    The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

  • An 'ilka gless he drank, he drank the lassie's health

    The Duke of Athol's Nurse 1898

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