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Nor never will Tom draw trigger, nor set a snare again, but in an honest way, and after that ye'll no make it a bootless bene for me, but bein', as I say, vicar o' Shackleton, and able to do as ye list, ye'll no let them bury me within twenty good yerd-wands measure o' the a'd beech trees that's round the churchyard of Shackleton I see; you would have your grave, when your time really comes, a good way from the place where lay the grave you dreamed of That's jest it.— J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
[16 The prai[17] besprent with springing sprouts disperse For caller humours[18] on the dewy night Rendering some place the gersë-piles[19] their light; As far as cattle the lang summer's day Had in their pasture eat and nip away; And blissful blossoms in the bloomed yerd, Submit their heads to the young sun's safeguard.— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
Mine was i' the yerd, his i' the air, he said.— Heather and Snow
The licht'nin' cam oot o' the yerd, an' no frae the lift at a'; the win' roared as gien 't had been an incarnat rage; the thunner rattlet an' crackit, as gien the mune an' a' the stars had been made kettledrums o' for the occasion; but never a drap o' rain or a stane o' hail fell; naething brak oot but blue licht an' roarin' win'.— Malcolm
As soon as he was in the chappell-yerd, all the knights spoke to him with a grimly voice, and said, 'Knight, Sir Launcelot, lay that sword from thee, or else thou shalt die Whether I live or die,' said Sir Launcelot, 'with no great words get yee it againe, therefore fight for it and ye list.'— Marmion
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