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  • Pottie gaed apung ower the barrow again, an 'sat doon on the tap o' the Gairner, wha was busy gaitherin 'up his gudes.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • In March 1538-9, a pursuivant was directed to pass to Dundee and search James Rollokkis gudes, and Maister John

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

  • In the Treasurer's Accounts, we find 10s. was paid to a messenger, sent on the 3d of December 1547, with "Letters to serche and seik the gudes of Maister Jhonne Gray, persoun of Sanct Nycholace Kirk, beside Cowper, quhilkis pertenis to our Souerane Lady be resoun of eschete, throu the said Maister Jhonnis being fugitive fra the lawes for art and part of the slauchter of the Cardinall."

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

  • The gudes and the ills lang o 'life we ha'e borne;

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • There’s a place where their berlins and galleys, as they ca’d them, used to lie in lang syne, but it’s no used now, because it’s ill carrying gudes up the narrow stairs, or ower the rocks.

    Chapter XL 1917

  • For an auld sang—it’s thought the gudes were stown—

    Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election-No. 4 1909

  • I kent him a heepocrite; ain o 'yer unco gudes; a man as looks one thing, says anither, and does a third; and noo I ken he's a coward.

    Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

  • Grace, which God forbid, or to mysell, or to the poor dumb tyke; or if I be skaithed and injured in body, gudes, or gear, I'll no forget wha it is that it's owing to. ''

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • Better greet ower your gudes than after your gudes.

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

  • Twa gudes seldom meet -- what's gude for the plant is ill for the peat.

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

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