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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
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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
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"The devil take me," said she (blessing herself), "if ever I saw't!"
English Satires Various 1885
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'And so ye saw't afore?', he ran on, not heeding my remark.
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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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
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"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
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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
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1982: I saw't not, thought it not: it harm'd not me:
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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
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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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