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Guest spot, scmesct schot - don't be all thinking you're BFF with TF now because of it!
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Guest spot, scmesct schot - don't be all thinking you're BFF with TF now because of it!
That's My Girl - No, Really. That's MY Girl. Hands Off. 2008
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The Castell [1030] that day schot ane schott at the Frenche, declairing thame thairby freindis to us, and ennemy to thame; bott he suddanelie repented of weall-doing.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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He slew dyuers of them; at lenth when he saw a company of speirmen comming doun against him, he gaif his horse the spurris, wha carried him to the Constable and fell doun dead, for he had many schotis: and worthy Normond was also schot in dyuers partis, wherof he died xv dayes efter.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Halieburton with mony utheris was slayne, and the Frenche men persewit the chase evin to the poirtis of Edinburgh, and had maid gret slauchter, war not thair was twa gret cannonis schot furth of the Castell at the
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Schortlie thare after the Admirall schot a flote boite, which, frome Grantoun craigis [315] till be east Leyth, sounded the deipe, and so returned to hir schippe.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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He hes bene fourtene feet of hycht with square membris effering thairto VI zeris, "continues he," afore the cumyng of this werk to lycht we saw his hanche-bane, als mekill as the hail bane of ane man, lor we schot our arme in the mouth thairof.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832 Various
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Your calculations may be erroneous -- figures obtained through the medium of mental arithmetic may lie, but the schot never.
The Land of Thor 1848
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Taking his schot between his knees, he counts off thirty balls out of a hundred.
The Land of Thor 1848
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I don't think he would rely with certainty upon the loose verbal statement that two and two make four without resorting to the schot for a verification.
The Land of Thor 1848
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