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  • All these right wing moaning minnie's should put up or shut up.

    Should Tory Bloggers Be More Aggressive in Defending Themselves? 2007

  • All these right wing moaning minnie's should put up or shut up.

    Should Tory Bloggers Be More Aggressive in Defending Themselves? 2007

  • 'Ay, and they are a hantle mair pious and devout than ever a body I hae seen in Eyemouth, or a' the country side to boot; forbye, my minnie's auld auntie, that sat graning by the ingle, and ay banned us when we came ben.

    A Modern Telemachus Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • The wild wind is ravin ', thy minnie's heart's sair;

    Can Ye Sew Cushions? 1803

  • Ae meenute, an 'ye're as safe's gien ye lay i' yer minnie's lap! "

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • Madge, however, escaped from her mother at the door, ran back to the foot of the table, dropped a very low and fantastic courtesy to the judge, and said, with a giggling laugh, -- "Our minnie's sair mis-set, after her ordinar, sir -- She'll hae had some quarrel wi 'her auld gudeman -- that's

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • Madge, however, escaped from her mother at the door, ran back to the foot of the table, dropped a very low and fantastic courtesy to the judge, and said, with a giggling laugh, -- "Our minnie's sair mis-set, after her ordinar, sir -- She'll hae had some quarrel wi 'her auld gudeman -- that's

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

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