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Examples
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They roosed me an 'hecht me ilk thing that was braw;
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Suddenly the soond cam again, as clear, as shrill, as shairp as ever, and this time the general heard it, for I heard him gie a kind o 'groan, as a tired man might wha has been roosed oot o' his sleep.
The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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"Sall, Domsie was roosed," Drumsheugh explained in the Muirtown inn next market.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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"He's a wee thing roosed!" remarked Sutherland, with a good-humoured yet slightly cynical grin.
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He's such an awfu 'man to fecht when he's roosed, that he's sure to kill some o' them if he's no 'killed himsel'.
Hunted and Harried 1859
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They're bad to hold, the Gray Dogs, when they're roosed. "
Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900
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"We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a sair stomach, 'and a' saw MacLure wes roosed.
A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878
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"'We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a sair stomach,' and a 'saw MacLure wes roosed.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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"Noo this roosed ma suspicions, for it's against reason for a man tae be dividing intae classes till the end o 'his sermon.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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"We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a sair stomach, 'and a' saw MacLure wes roosed.
A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 1 Ian Maclaren 1878
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