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Weel, so we sat niffering about some brandy that I said I wanted, till he came in.
Chapter XXXIII 1917
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` ` Weel, Ratcliffe, I'll no stand niffering wi 'ye; ye ken the way that favour's gotten in my office; ye maun be usefu'. ''
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‘Weel, so we sat niffering about some brandy that I said I wanted, till he came in.’
Guy Mannering 1815
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'Weel, so we sat niffering about some brandy that I said I wanted, till he came in.'
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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'Weel, so we sat niffering about some brandy that I said I wanted, till he came in.'
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"Weel, Ratcliffe, I'll no stand niffering wi 'ye; ye ken the way that favour's gotten in my office; ye maun be usefu'."
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"Weel, Ratcliffe, I'll no stand niffering wi 'ye; ye ken the way that favour's gotten in my office; ye maun be usefu'."
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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'Weel, so we sat niffering about some brandy that I said I wanted, till he came in.'
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Ratcliffe, I’ll no stand niffering wi’ ye; ye ken the way that favour’s gotten in my office; ye maun be usefu’.”
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