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  • ` ` Why, that's another matter, '' replied the beadle, ` ` and if it be true --- and I think thou dost not look so polrumptious as thy playfellow yonder --- Thou wouldst be a mettle lass enow, an thou wert snog and snod a bid better.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • I think thou dost not look so polrumptious as thy playfellow yonder -- Thou wouldst be a mettle lass enow, an thou wert snog and snod a bid better.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • “Why, that’s another matter,” replied the beadle, “and if it be true — and I think thou dost not look so polrumptious as thy playfellow yonder — Thou wouldst be

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

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