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Examples
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“Na, I haena fund Miss Clara, but I hae fund something ye wad be wae to lose — your braw hunting-knife.”
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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But now we haena sic spirit amang us; we think mair about the warst wallydraigle in our ain byre, than about the blessing which the angel of the covenant gave to the Patriarch even at Peniel and Mahanaim, or the binding obligation of our national vows; and we wad rather gie a pund Scots to buy an unguent to clear out auld rannell-trees and our beds o’ the English bugs as they ca’ them, than we wad gie a plack to rid the land of the swarm of Arminian caterpillars, Socinian pismires, and deistical Miss Katies, that have ascended out of the bottomless pit, to plague this perverse, insidious, and lukewarm generation.
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Few guests come to this puir place, and I haena custom eneugh to hire servants.
Old Mortality 2004
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'When Si,' retorted Meg very deliberately, 'intercommunes wi' me, as ye ca 'it,' here the 'muckle-mouth' expanded east and west, 'he intercommunes wi' me i 'Scotland, an' there ye haena ony power ower him or me.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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'I hae done wrang,' he moaned aloud; 'I promised Jeannie to mak her an honest woman, but I haena done it.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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"Gin ye haena ane o 'the psalms o' Dauvit i 'yir kist o' tunes, mak 'the creetur play' Nearer, my God, to Thee. '"
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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"But, ma guid man, I haena a copper aboot me, or it's wullin 'enough I'd be to gie ye a shullin' or so for this fine drive."
Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth
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We a 'ken fine we haena been ower regular at the prayer meetin'; but we'll try to dae better in the time to come.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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Colonel Mannering had recourse to his handkerchief; Pleydell made wry faces, and wiped the glasses of his spectacles; and honest Dinmont, after two loud blubbering explosions, exclaimed, Deils in the man! hes garrd me do that I haena done since my auld mither died.
Chapter L 1917
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Troth, Luckie, its very true, said the steady farmer; and ere I turn back frae the Captains side, Ill show that I haena forgottent.
Chapter LIII 1917
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