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  • "But ye saw this foul murder, and though the laight was dim ye saw the murderers, and they had the Jaisuitical air?"

    The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

  • You'll have to put his rooms ready, may dear, and laight a fayer by 'm by, for he's sure to be here to-night.

    By Berwen Banks Allen Raine 1885

  • However, disagreement is the stuff of progress; happily, someone out there prefers the gentility of no doubtly, the delicacy of coughen, and the pure flourish, I guess, of laight.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1 1977

  • "Wall, sah, it presembled mos'ly dat big laight what yo 'see on a snortermobile befo' it runs ober you.

    The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898

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