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  • How lang Steenie lay there, he could not tell; but when he came to himsell, he was lying in the auld kirkyard of Redgauntlet parochine just at the door of the family aisle, and the scutcheon of the auld knight, Sir

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • I will allow that ilk parochine, on an average, employs fifty pleughs, whilk is a great proportion in sic miserable soil as thae creatures hae to labour, and that there may be pasture enough for pleugh-horses, and owsen, and forty or fifty cows; now, to take care

    Rob Roy 2005

  • How lang Steenie lay there, he could not tell; but when he came to himsell, he was lying in the auld kirkyard of Redgauntlet parochine, just at the door of the family aisle, and the scutcheon of the auld knight, Sir Robert, hanging over his head.

    Wandering Willie’s Tale 1921

  • How lang Steenie lay there he could not tell; but when he came to himsell he was lying in the auld kirkyard of Redgauntlet parochine, just at the door of the family aisle, and the scutcheon of the auld knight, Sir Robert, hanging over his head.

    Wandering Willie’s Tale 1907

  • How lang Steenie lay there he could not tell; but when he came to himsell he was lying in the auld kirkyard of Redgauntlet parochine, just at the door of the family aisle, and the scutcheon of the auld knight,

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

  • How lang Steenie lay there, he could not tell; but when he came to himsell, he was lying in the auld kirkyard of Redgauntlet parochine just at the door of the family aisle, and the scutcheon of the auld knight,

    Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

  • Ne'er a bit but she looks far better than when she married Gilbert, and then she was the bonniest lass in our parochine and the neist till't.

    The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

  • Gilbert, and then she was the bonniest lass in our parochine and the neist till’t.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Now, sirs, I sall haud ilk parochine at the moderate estimate of eight hunder examinable persons, deducting children under nine years of age, and then adding one-fifth to stand for bairns of nine years auld, and under, the whole population will reach to the sum of -- let us add one-fifth to 800 to be the multiplier, and 230 being the multiplicand "--

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Now, sirs, I sall haud ilk parochine at the moderate estimate of eight hunder examinable persons, deducting children under nine years of age, and then adding one-fifth to stand for bairns of nine years auld, and under, the whole population will reach to the sum of -- let us add one-fifth to 800 to be the multiplier, and 230 being the multiplicand "--

    Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

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