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You know, the way that the Tories are making such a bairn's arse of their campaign, this weasel might just have his way.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

You know, the way that the Tories are making such a bairn's arse of their campaign, this weasel might just have his way.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

If, as Mousa abu Marzook seems to imply, Jews are and have been since the French Revolution, in control of some kind of behind the scenes steering wheel, by which the labours and blood of the world's worst conflicts, have been cynically fashioned to suit 'Zionist interests'; then looking at how the cards are stacked right now, how come they made such a bairn's arse of things?

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Yer bairn's bonny eyes are bigger than the Firth of Forth, me laddie!

inverness 2006

Can ye not bring yourself to do it for the bairn's sake?

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

"Brianna thought she'd stay; the bairn's settled a bit, and she doesna want to upset him wi" the walk.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

I was not old, in heart -- it pattered like a bairn's steps to every glimpse and sentence of her.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

And the old dame looked at him through her spectacles one minute, and two, and three; and then she said, "He's sick; and a bairn's a bairn, sweep or none."

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

He chuckled over the shapeless blue overall, just like a bairn's, that she wore on her neat wee figure, and the wild shining hair which resembled nothing so much as a tamarisk hedge in a high wind, though she would have barked like a terrier at anyone who suggested that it was not as neatly a done head as any in

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

Fair; Ritchie Singing Street (1964), 54, sung "when the bairn's no weel"; and in Sc.Ethn. Archive, from Angus, c.

Cockie Bendie 1932