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  • I hadn't called Elspie, an 'I s'posed she was asleep in the other bedroom.

    Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

  • "Elspie," he said, in a subdued voice, on being told, "help me up to my bed."

    The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains 1859

  • Dwelling of David Mackaye, and his daughters Elspie and Bella,

    Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

  • Auntie Elspie was talking to Hughie Reid in deep conference when Gavin arrived at the farm, and on the way home she was so silent, that he was worried over her.

    In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • Then Auntie Elspie would put aside her spinning and Auntie Janet her knitting and they would tell him tales from the glorious history of the clan Grant.

    In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • They all had dinner at Craig-Ellachie and they took pictures of the old house, and of the three Aunties in the garden, and another of Auntie Elspie spinning in the door way.

    In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • Auntie Elspie as to defend himself against poor old Piper Lauchie.

    In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • Craig-Ellachie threshing, to the effect that Elspie had broken off her engagement.

    In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • Auntie Elspie slept in the room opposite his, and ever since the night he had developed the whooping cough she had kept her door ajar and that was the reason she knew that her boy had not been sleeping well for many a night.

    In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • Auntie Elspie said, wiping the shining surface tenderly.

    In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

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