orra

• “As if the imagery and the "orra" vocabulary weren't enough.”

  languagehat.com: NEW MACDIARMID AND AN INTRODUCTION TAE METRICS.

• “It is most laughable to see immaculate city chaps out here doing all sorts of "orra" jobs.”

  The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915

• “Peter Riney and the new "orra" man were called in to witness the agreement.”

  The House with the Green Shutters

• “Jock Gilmour, the "orra" man, was washing down the legs of a horse beside the trough.”

  The House with the Green Shutters

• “The ordinary course of life, with fine air and contented minds, was to do a full share of work till seventy, and then to look after "orra" jobs well into the eighties, and to "slip awa '" within sight of ninety.”

  Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)

• “The ordinary course of life, with fine air and contented minds, was to do a full share of work till seventy, and then to look after "orra" jobs well into the eighties, and to "slip awa" within sight of ninety.”

  A Doctor of the Old School — Complete

• “On watching someone die (ROT13'd for possible TMI): Ng yrnfg jura fbzrbar'f orra fvpx sbe zbaguf naq haerfcbafvir sbe ubhef, gur bayl creprcgvoyr qvssrerapr (gb zr) orgjrra n crefba nobhg gb qvr naq bar jub'f whfg qvrq vf gung gur qrnq crefba vf pbzcyrgryl zbgvbayrff naq erznvaf fb.”

  Making Light: Open thread 136

• “Vg jnf n fhogyr genafvgvba, naq jbhyq unir orra pbzcyrgryl vzcreprcgvoyr vs gur zbavgbef unqa'g fubja 0 urneg engr, 0 erfcvengvba, naq syngyvar oenva npgvivgl.”

  Making Light: Open thread 136

• “And there was the bag of siller sure aneugh, and mony orra thing besides, that had been missing for mony a day.”

  Redgauntlet

• “Macool, Macool, orra whyi deed ye diie? of a trying thirstay mournin?”

  Finnegans Wake

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