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  • ‘Troth can I no; I am a lone woman, for James he’s awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year-aulds, and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o’ your gang-there-out sort o’ bodies.

    Chapter I 1917

  • --- I am for doun to Christy Wilson's, to see if him and me can gree about the luckpenny I am to gie him for his year-aulds.

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • Drumshourloch Fair with the year-aulds, and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o 'your gang-there-out sort o' bodies. '

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Drumshourloch Fair with the year-aulds, and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o 'your gang-there-out sort o' bodies. '

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

  • -- And that's very true -- I hae nae time to be standing here clavering -- Landlord, get us our breakfast, and see an 'get the yauds fed -- I am for doun to Christy Wilson's, to see if him and me can gree about the luckpenny I am to gie him for his year-aulds.

    The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801

  • Fair with the year-aulds, and I daurna for my life open the door to ony

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Wilson’s, to see if him and me can gree about the luckpenny I am to gie him for his year-aulds.

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • Drumshourloch Fair with the year-aulds, and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o’ your gang-there-out sort o’ bodies.’

    Guy Mannering 1815

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