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  • ` ` I ken'd you popist folk are unco set on the relics that are fetched frae far-kirks and sae forth. ''

    The Antiquary 1845

  • Countess o 'Glenallan being dead and lying in state, and how she's to be buried at St. Ruth's as this night fa's, wi' torch-light; and a 'the popist servants, and Ringan Aikwood, that's a papist too, are to be there, and it will be the grandest show ever was seen.' '

    The Antiquary 1845

  • "I ken'd you popist folk are unco set on the relics that are fetched frae far-kirks and sae forth."

    The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • -- And yell hae heard o 'the Countess o' Glenallan being dead and lying in state, and how she's to be buried at St. Ruth's as this night fa's, wi 'torch-light; and a' the popist servants, and

    The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • -- And yell hae heard o 'the Countess o' Glenallan being dead and lying in state, and how she's to be buried at St. Ruth's as this night fa's, wi 'torch-light; and a' the popist servants, and

    The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • "I ken'd you popist folk are unco set on the relics that are fetched frae far-kirks and sae forth."

    The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • It's a textbook example of that popist precept/procedure, whereby "'importance' and 'relevance' is a scam and a trap" and if you can only "stop thinking about things in those terms, all of music and art becomes far more enjoyable" (Matthew Perpetua).

    blissblog 2009

  • “I ken’d you popist folk are unco set on the relics that are fetched frae far-kirks and sae forth.”

    The Antiquary 1584

  • And yell hae heard o’ the Countess o’ Glenallan being dead and lying in state, and how she’s to be buried at St. Ruth’s as this night fa’s, wi’ torch-light; and a’ the popist servants, and Ringan

    The Antiquary 1584

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