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Examples
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He was taking a bit of hard oatcake out of the basket of "farles" which swung from the black, smoked beam in the corner.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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She had plates of curly oatcake and powdery farles.
The Northern Iron George A. Birmingham 1907
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"There's your fish for you," she said, "and fadge and oaten farles, and if you want more you'd better show some civility to the woman that does for you."
The Northern Iron George A. Birmingham 1907
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I left Jamie Todd with a big stick to keep the school in my place, while, with some farles of cake bread in my pocket, I took alone my way to Edinburgh.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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Now came a dozen farles of cake, crisp and toothsome, from the girdle, and three large scones raised with yeast.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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Generally he found Winsome busy with her household affairs, sometimes with her sleeves buckled above her elbows, rolling the tough dough for the crumpy farles of the oat-cake, and scattering handfuls of dry meal over it with deft fingers to bring the mass to its proper consistency for rolling out upon the bake-board.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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He was furniflied with very little above the bare necef - farles of life, but ever appeared with a face of ferenity and fatisfa6lion, v/hich it is not in the power of wealth alwavs to beftow.
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