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  • "Oh, you're the laddie with the pownie, are you?" said Frank, in answer to an announcement made to him by the boy.

    The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872

  • There ain't no useful animal as I kens the name and nature of as he can't have in Ayrshire, — for paying for it, my leddie; — horse, pownie, or ass, just whichever you please, my leddie.

    The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872

  • There's mair in keeping a pownie than your leddyship thinks.

    The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872

  • Edinburgh that evening on the _pownie_, which he returned to the owner in a few days afterwards by John Samson, the brother of the immortal

    Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852

  • At length Burns arrived, mounted on a borrowed _pownie_.

    Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852

  • There's mair in keeping a pownie than your leddyship thinks.

    The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1848

  • "Oh, you're the laddie with the pownie, are you?" said Frank, in answer to an announcement made to him by the boy.

    The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1848

  • There ain't no useful animal as I kens the name and nature of as he can't have in Ayrshire, -- for paying for it, my leddie; -- horse, pownie, or ass, just whichever you please, my leddie.

    The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1848

  • He'll gang mad on a horse wha's proud on a pownie.

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

  • I never quarrelled the ball that the gentry used to hae at my bit house a gude wheen years bygane -- when they came, the auld folk in their coaches, wi 'lang-tailed black horses, and a wheen galliard gallants on their hunting horses, and mony a decent leddy behind her ain goodman, and mony a bonny smirking lassie on her pownie, and wha sae happy as they -- And what for no?

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

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