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And who taught me to smoke a cobbler, pin a losen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets? — 4 Alan, once more.
Redgauntlet 2008
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"Maybe ye're a furriner, an 'dinna understan' mainners, but it's as weel to tell ye that I expec 'men to tak' aff their bannets when they come into _my_ hoose."
Hunted and Harried 1859
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And who taught me to smoke a cobbler, pin a losen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets?
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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They lifted their rents, and spent them; called in their kain and ate them; gaed to the kirk of a Sunday; bowed civilly if folk took aff their bannets as they gaed by, and lookit as black as sin at them that keepit them on.”
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They lifted their rents and spent them; called in their kain and eat them; gaed to the kirk of a Sunday, bowed civilly if folk took aff their bannets as they gaed by, and lookit as black as sin at them that keepit them on_. "
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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