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August 6, 2009 at 3:39 am or mabbeh a pretty silvery lockit to put teh pickshures in?
1 in 6 wins fantastic prize… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Pottie gaed clash into Stumpie Mertin's coal cellar, an 'lockit the door i' the inside.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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He turned an 'gaed his ways oot o' that room, and lockit the door ahint him; and step by step, doon the stairs, as heavy as leed; and set doon the can'le on the table at the stairfoot.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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This room was aye lockit when he wasna in it, and naebody was ever allowed tae gang into it.
The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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He turned an 'gaed his ways oot o' that room, and lockit the door ahint him; and step by step, doon the stairs, as heavy as leed; and set doon the can'le on the table at the stairfoot.
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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But where did yon lang-leggit, long-lockit, Fish River moss-trooping callant win haud o 'him?
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870
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"What w'y is 't, my leddy, 'at the hoose is no lockit up, an' ilka body i 'their beds?" he asked.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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The door's lockit, an 'Jeames Jaup, they tell me 's tane awa' the key.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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Gin yon bonny leddy 'at yer grannie keeps lockit up i' the aumry war to tak to the piano, that's jist hoo she wad play.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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An 'wha kens what the mad yerl, for mad I s' uphaud him, an 'fit only to be lockit up -- wha kens what he may do neist!
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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