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  • adverb suddenly

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  • The random word search yielded this fun example:

    "Then at their leisure, when they're not thrang at home, they can pare corns to the gentry, or give ploughmen's heads the bicker-cut for a penny, and the hair into the bargain for stuffing chairs with; and between us, who knows -- many rottener ship has come to land -- but that some genty Miss, fond of plays, poems, and novels, may fancy our Benjie when he is giving her red hair a twist with the torturing irons, and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!"

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith

    May 31, 2010