bocht

Ne scal nan ufel bon un {} bocht. ne nan god unforȝolden. vfel we doþ al to muchel. ⁊ god lesse þe {n} ne we sculden.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

There's a fine fixed-in bed, an 'I have the room chairs I got when my Auntie Leeb de'ed, wi' a tidie or twa ower them, an 'an auld-fashioned roond tablie' at I bocht at a rowp -- ane o 'thae anes that cowps up an' sets back to the wa 'when you're no' needn't.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

We bocht the strongest bound o 'them, but he banged them to tatters amazin' fast.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

Jesabell of idolatrie, of avarice, of murther; and sicklik Esaias the Propheit callitt the magistrattis of Jerusalem in his tymeis companzeounis to thevis, princeis of Sodome, brybe-takeris, and murtheraris: He complenit that thair silver was turnit in to dross, that thair wyne was myngleit with watter, and that justice was bocht and sauld.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

"He's bocht him gey sune, I'm thinking," says the policeman.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

He answered, "Nien bocht, you bet," is what I understood him to say.

"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins

Weel, I went doon to Dundee and bocht ten pund worth o 'ebony, and afore the wood was delivered the fashion had changed, and the men were all buyin' cheese-cutter bonnets, so here was I left wi 'ten pund worth o' ebony on my hands ... and if I hadna sold it to Davie Lamb the cabinet-maker for thirteen pund I micht ha 'lost the money.

A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

But I was interested enough to look to see what that toon had done, later, and I found oot that its patriotism must ha 'been awakened soon after, for it bocht its share and more o' bonds, and it gave its siller freely to all the bodies that needed money for war work.

Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

But the gentleman that bocht it lookit at it, and then sent it back, and tauld me to auction it all ower again.

Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

"They're a 'that Mister Carter bocht," said Tam untruthfully, "an 'A' thocht ye'd wish to ha'e a few o 'the laddie's seegairs."

Tam o' the Scoots Edgar Wallace 1903