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  • I kent the kilt whenever I saw't; it was the ane Dauvit Kenawee wears in the

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • I tauld your honour I was fleyed wi 'a bogle that night, but ye wadna listen to me --- I aye thought there was witchcraft and deevilry amang the Papishers, but I ne'er saw't wi' bodily een till that awfu 'night.' '

    Rob Roy 1887

  • "The devil take me," said she (blessing herself), "if ever I saw't!"

    English Satires Various 1885

  • 'And so ye saw't afore?', he ran on, not heeding my remark.

    Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • I saw't -- and plainly enough, too -- although I said naething about it.

    Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819

  • "The _devil_ take me!" said she, (blessing herself,) "if ever I saw't!"

    The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 Jonathan Swift 1706

  • She may be ill, but he's no 'the pairty to saw't like neep seed ower a' the countryside. "

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • 1982: I saw't not, thought it not: it harm'd not me:

    Othello (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

  • I tauld your honour I was fleyed wi 'a bogle that night, but ye wadna listen to me -- I aye thought there was witchcraft and deevilry amang the Papishers, but I ne'er saw't wi' bodily een till that awfu 'night. "

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • I tauld your honour I was fleyed wi 'a bogle that night, but ye wadna listen to me -- I aye thought there was witchcraft and deevilry amang the Papishers, but I ne'er saw't wi' bodily een till that awfu 'night. "

    Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

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