mayna

"It mayna be mair reverent," suggested Birse, to whom Elspeth's kitchen was a pleasant place, "but it's grand, and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable."

The Little Minister 1898

Kitty Wobster 'at was nae friends to the corpse to speak o', but Marget passed by me, me 'at is her ain flesh an' blood, though it mayna be for the like o 'me to say it.

A Window in Thrums 1898

"Ye mayna be," said Eppie, "but lasses doesna do to be ower partikler."

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

"Ye mayna be," said Eppie, "but lasses doesna do to be ower partikler."

Auld Licht Idyls 1898

I wish she was her ain mistress; and I wish she mayna be some other body's mistress or it's lang --- She's a wild slip that. ''

Rob Roy 1887

"It mayna be sae bad," Janet tried to comfort her.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

"Ye mayna be," said Eppie, "but lasses doesna do to be ower-partikler."

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

"There's nane sae weel shod, James, that they mayna slip," answered

Scottish sketches Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

“Weel, aiblins sae,” retorted John, “but that mayna be for want o 'ministers.”

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

But whether things mayna come to a p'int whaurat ye're bu'n ', still i' God's name, to defen 'the life God has gien ye, I canna say -- I haena the licht to justifee me in denyin' 't.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864