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  • If it warna that your father, auld David Deans, had been a tenant on our land, I would cry up the men-folk, and hae ye dookit in the burn for your impudence. ''

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • I believe there's mair hares than sheep on my farm; and for the moor-fowl or the grey-fowl, they lie as thick as doos in a dookit.

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • I believe there's mair hares than sheep on my farm; and for the moor-fowl or the grey-fowl, they lie as thick as doos in a dookit.

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

  • I believe there's mair hares than sheep on my farm; and for the moor-fowl or the grey-fowl, they lie as thick as doos in a dookit.

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Folk had a jest that St. Ronan dookit the Deevil in the Waal, which garr'd it taste aye since of brimstane -- but she dared to say that was a 'papist nonsense, for she was tell't by him that kend weel, and that was the minister himsell, that

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • Folk had a jest that St. Ronan dookit the Deevil in the Waal, which garr’d it taste aye since of brimstane — but she dared to say that was a’ papist nonsense, for she was tell’t by him that kend weel, and that was the minister himsell, that St. Ronan was nane of your idolatrous Roman saunts, but a Chaldee,” (meaning probably a Culdee,) “whilk was doubtless a very different story.”

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • If it warna that your father, auld David Deans, had been a tenant on our land, I would cry up the men-folk, and hae ye dookit in the burn for your impudence.”

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • He may now, in fact, be classed with the proverbially derided Fife laird, owning 'A wee bit of land, a great lump of debt, and a dookit. '[

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • If it warna that your father, auld David Deans, had been a tenant on our land, I would cry up the men-folk, and hae ye dookit in the burn for your impudence. "

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

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