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• "I think he was also right not to prosecute the people involved." thrawn, then obama is in violation of the laws onto which we signed. if you believe those laws aren't valid, then you really don't believe in The Law at all. you believe in politically convenient exceptions. which is precisely what obama is doing. —  The Nation: Top Stories
• There's no' muckle hertnin' for a woman when she's left to trauchle day oot day in wi' seven litlans, an' a thrawn-gabbit footer o' a man juist comin' in at diet times, rennyin' aboot first ae thing an' syne anither, threapin' that his porritch is no' half boiled, simmerin' an' winterin' aboot haen to wait a meenit or twa for his denner or his tea. —  My Man Sandy
• But they never could mak' ye onything but oor ain kindly, thrawn, obstinate auld John, wi' a hand like a bacon ham and a heart like a bairn's. —  Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
• I dinna like to hear ye speyk sae scornfulike o' the gude man that has the care o' oor sowls It wad be mair to the purpose ye had the care o' his Sae I hae: hasna ilkabody the care o' ilk ither's Ay; but he preshumes upo' 't--and ye dinna; there's the differ Weel, but ye see, lassie, the man has nae insicht--nane to speak o', that is; and it's pleased God to mak him a wee stoopid, and some thrawn (_twisted_). —  Salted with Fire
• Nor was this all, for the razor suddenly levered upwards by Birsie's hoof added another and entirely unprofessional wrinkle to his face Saunders uprose in wrath, for the soap was stinging furiously in the cut, and expostulated with Birsie with a handful of reins which he lifted off the lid of the corn-chest Ye ill-natured, thrawn, upsettin' blastie, ye donnart auld deevil!" —  The Lilac Sunbonnet

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