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"What is the _Airgiod-cearc_ to you, that you will go over to Stornoway only to be laughed at and make a fool of yourself?"
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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"And have you got rid yet of the _Airgiod-cearc_ [12] Sheila?" said
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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Irish has turcaí, from the same source, but also cearc fhrancach
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"It is many and many a tax and a due Sir James will take away from his tenants in the Lewis, and he will spend more money a thousand times than ever he will get back; and it was this _Airgiod-cearc_, it will stand in the place of a great many other things taken away, just to remind the folk that they have not their land all in their own right.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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