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There might have been more of a splore," says he, "and no harm done--a wheen hens and a keg would not have been out of place But my aunt was not in his way of thinking There would surely be no occasion," said she (when Margaret was not there), "the woman was well enough done by already You would not have him live there in open scandal?"— The McBrides A Romance of Arran
I know how to do it So, Mr. Errol continued the splore, and smoked the Turk's head.— Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life
Meadowbank taxed me with the novels, and to end that farce at once I pleaded guilty, so that splore is ended.— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
So he behoved to have a splore, as they called it: he entertained all his friends at a hotel to a supper, where they had a night of it, drinking, and singing, and laughing, to bid him farewell.— Mr. Hogarth's Will
I hae a good conscience, and little to answer for, unless it be about a rant amang the lasses, or a splore at a fair, and that's no muckle to speak of.— The Black Dwarf
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