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  • "You thought for her, you acted for her, frae the first; you toomed her, and then filled her up wi 'yoursel'."

    Tommy and Grizel 1898

  • ` ` Troth, sir, but just middling, '' replied the barber; ` ` she's been in a swither about the jocolate this morning, and was like to hae toomed it a 'out into the slap-bason, and drank it hersell in her ecstacies --- but she's won ower wi't, wi' the help o 'Miss

    The Antiquary 1845

  • "Troth, sir, but just middling," replied the barber; "she's been in a swither about the jocolate this morning, and was like to hae toomed it a 'out into the slap-bason, and drank it hersell in her ecstacies -- but she's won ower wi't, wi' the help o 'Miss M'Intyre."

    The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • "Troth, sir, but just middling," replied the barber; "she's been in a swither about the jocolate this morning, and was like to hae toomed it a 'out into the slap-bason, and drank it hersell in her ecstacies -- but she's won ower wi't, wi' the help o 'Miss M'Intyre."

    The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Scots pint, and hardly a mutchkin, boiled wi 'sope and hartshorn draps, and toomed doun the creature's throat wi' ane whorn.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Burns ranted and housed with smugglers, conversed with tinkers huddled in a kiln, or listened to the riotous mirth of a batch of "randie gangrel bodies" as they "toomed their powks and pawned their duds," for liquor in Poosie Nansie's, he was taking sketches for the future entertainment and instruction of the world; they could not foresee that from all this moral strength and poetic beauty would arise.

    The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

  • Cumberland, whilk is ane pint, as they ca’t, of yill, whilk is a dribble in comparison of our gawsie Scots pint, and hardly a mutchkin, boiled wi’ sope and hartshorn draps, and toomed doun the creature’s throat wi’ ane whorn.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

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