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  • ‘Broken limbs I wish,’ answered the beldam, ‘that my hinnie had broken the best bane in his body, before he had broken his fiddle, that was the best blood in Scotland — it was a Cremony, for aught that I ken.’

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • ‘I daurna I daurna,’ said the poor woman, ‘they would murder me and my hinnie Willie baith, and they have misguided us aneugh already; — but if there is anything worldly I could do for your honour, leave out loosing ye?’

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • ‘And ye ken mickle less of my hinnie, sir,’ replied Maggie,

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • “And where did he change his clothes again, hinnie?” said Sharpitlaw, in his most conciliatory manner.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • “Non-conformity, hinnie,” sighed Mause, “is the name that thae warldly men gie us.”

    Old Mortality 2004

  • “Of my persuasion, hinnie!” said the too-enlightened Mause;

    Old Mortality 2004

  • The mules prance and hinnie; the horses neigh and bound over the grass; but the long boughs bend without breaking: and, acting as elastic springs, give full play to the affrighted creatures.

    The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

  • By the well o 'the woods o' Wearie O! Oh, gi'e me my castock, my hinnie, my heart,

    Paddo's Song 1828

  • By the well o 'the woods o' Wearie O! Oh, gi'e me my kail, my hinnie, my heart,

    Paddo's Song 1828

  • ` ` And where did he change his clothes again, hinnie? '' said

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

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