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from The Century Dictionary.
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Examples
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Thae are bonny writer words — amaist like the language
Rob Roy 2005
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Our folk had tirled the dead dragoons as bare as bawbees before we were loose amaist. —
Old Mortality 2004
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Gars [16] auld claes look amaist as weel's the new;
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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"But I needna ask the question, sin 'yer looks tell ye're amaist weel".
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage
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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new: ***
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They learned to "gar old clo'es amaist as weel as new."
Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts
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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; [322-17]
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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QUOTATION: Gars auld claes look amaist as weel s the new.
Quotations 1919
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Robert Burns. (17591796) (continued) 4734Gars auld claes look amaist as weel s the new.
Quotations 1919
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"'Tis an unco thing," the constable declared, "but that wad be the word was amaist at my tongue's tip."
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918
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