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"I cudna gar a bonnie, high-born, white-handit leddy fa 'in love wi' a puir futteret (weasel) o 'a crater -- a shargar (scrag) like Cosmo
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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"'Deed it's nae wonner ye sud speir, laddie! for it's weel kent' at maist mithers, gien there be a shargar or a nat'ral or a crookit ane amo 'their bairns, mak mair o' that ane nor o 'a' the lave putten thegither -- as gien they wad mak it up till 'im, for the fair play o' the warl.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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"Hoots, woman!" he said, "ye wad hae me a shargar (A SKIN-AND-BONE
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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