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I could take my aith to that sneeshing-mull amang a thousand --- I carried it for mony a year, till I niffered it for this tin ane wi 'auld George Glen, the dammer and sinker, when he took a fancy till't doun at Glen-Withershins yonder.' '
The Antiquary 1845
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The thrums were a perquisite of my own, which I niffered with the gundy-wife for Gibraltar-rock, cut-throat, gib, or bull's-eyes.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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The thrums were a perquisite of my own, which I niffered with the gundy-wife for Gibraltar-rock, cut-throat, gib, or bull's-eyes.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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I could take my aith to that sneeshing-mull amang a thousand -- I carried it for mony a year, till I niffered it for this tin ane wi 'auld George Glen, the dammer and sinker, when he took a fancy till't doun at Glen-Withershins yonder. "
The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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I could take my aith to that sneeshing-mull amang a thousand -- I carried it for mony a year, till I niffered it for this tin ane wi 'auld George Glen, the dammer and sinker, when he took a fancy till't doun at Glen-Withershins yonder. "
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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I could take my aith to that sneeshing-mull amang a thousand — I carried it for mony a year, till I niffered it for this tin ane wi’ auld George Glen, the dammer and sinker, when he took a fancy till’t doun at Glen – Withershins yonder.”
The Antiquary 1584
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