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I saw Magneezhy clap his hand to his brow, wheel round like a peerie, or a sheep seized with the sturdie, and then play flap down on his broadside, breaking the necks of half-a-dozen cabbage-stocks--three of which were afterwards clean lost, as we could not put them all into the pot at one time.

—The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith

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I saw Magneezhy clap his hand to his brow, wheel round like a peerie, or a sheep seized with the sturdie, and then play flap down on his broadside, breaking the necks of half-a-dozen cabbage-stocks--three of which were afterwards clean lost, as we could not put them all into the pot at one time. — The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
"It's clear she hasna steeked an e'e a' nicht, and me sleepin' like a peerie. — Doom Castle
Do you remember how the child you once were sat in the brae, spinning the peerie, and hunkering at I-dree I-dree I droppit-it? — Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890
She will twist that Tam Gallaberry round her finger and then -- whizz -- she will make him spin like a peerie! " — The Dew of Their Youth
"It's a pretty peerie holme," Signy remarked. — Viking Boys