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Candlestick, pushing his lantern-jawed visage and bare-boned nag rudely forward into the crowd — ‘there is some news; and, if it please my Creator, I will forthwith obtain speirings thereof.’
Waverley 2004
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After many "How are ye, Jims's" and mutual speirings over a "bit mouthful of yill" -- so they phrased it; but that was a meiosis, for they drank five quarts -- they fell to a serious discussion of the commercial possibilities of Scotland.
The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885
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` ` There is some news, '' said mine host of the Candlestick, pushing his lantern-jawed visage and bare-boned nag rudely forward into the crowd --- ` ` there is some news; and if it please my Creator, I will forthwith obtain speirings thereof. ''
The Waverley 1877
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'There is some news,' said mine host of the Candlestick, pushing his lantern-jawed visage and bare-boned nag rudely forward into the crowd -- 'there is some news; and, if it please my Creator, I will forthwith obtain speirings thereof.'
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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'There is some news,' said mine host of the Candlestick, pushing his lantern-jawed visage and bare-boned nag rudely forward into the crowd -- 'there is some news; and if it please my Creator, I will forthwith obtain speirings thereof.'
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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'There is some news,' said mine host of the Candlestick, pushing his lantern-jawed visage and bare-boned nag rudely forward into the crowd -- 'there is some news; and, if it please my Creator, I will forthwith obtain speirings thereof.'
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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'There is some news,' said mine host of the Candlestick, pushing his lantern-jawed visage and bare-boned nag rudely forward into the crowd -- 'there is some news; and, if it please my Creator, I will forthwith obtain speirings thereof.'
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"Dinna ye deave her Grace with your speirings, my lammie.
Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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