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'I think he means deid as in broon breid,' Parlabane mused.
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'I think he means deid as in broon breid,' Parlabane mused.
Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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With 1-3 cf. MacLennan SNR (1909), 50: "Ride horsie, ride, ride horsie, ride, Ride awa 'to Aiberdeen, and buy white breid."
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She maun win her ain breid; an 'gien she didna that, she wad be but the mair ta'en up wi' sic nonsense as the likes o 'lord Forgue
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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The cobbler said a little prayer, and then they began to eat -- first of oat-cakes, baked by the old woman, then of loaf-breid, as they called it.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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"Nae farer nor the len'th o 'my nose, an' the breid o 'my twa een," was the scornful answer.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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But as he lay and devoured the new 'white breid,' his satisfaction -- the bare delight of his animal existence -- reached a pitch such as even this imagination, stinted with poverty, and frost-bitten with maternal oppression, had never conceived possible.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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"Sandy Forbes gart her gang an 'fess a loaf o' white breid."
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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"Gin I dinna fess a loaf o 'white breid, never lippen (trust) to me again."
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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