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  • Morton, as he followed her into the room, underwent a rebuke for not “dighting his shune,” which showed that Ailie had not relinquished her habits of authority.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • All that I can say to you is not to hazard an action without a probable appearance of carrying it, -- rather to shune an engadgment, and to yeild to them the ground, than to expose the affairs of the King to such ill consequences as would follow from a defeat.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • Stumpie's an awfu 'peppery budy, an' though the Smith leuch when he made his joke at the tailor's precentin ', Mertin got as raised as a wasp, and he yattered back -- "You'll maybe be better aff i' the ither place, wi 'your auld horse shune an' your smiddy reek, ye auld acowder ---- "

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Sandy was widin 'aboot amon' the mud, an 'his lorn shune liftin' wi 'a noisy gluck, juist like a pump aff the fang.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • The stairheid was fu 'o' fowk, a 'oot in their nicht-goons to see what was ado; but, I can ashure you, when they saw Sandy comin' fleein 'up, they shune disappeared.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Thingymabob, an 'you'll shune find oot whuther he thinks the Toon

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • "Hoose-room, is't; there's plenty o 'that; but hoo shune can ye a' come up?" he anxiously inquired.

    Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

  • No a fit in buckled shune sae licht as his, his weel-shapit leg covered wi 'the bonny' rig-an'-fur 'stockin' that I knitted mysel 'frae the cast on o' the ower-fauld [over-fold] to the bonny white forefit that sets aff the blue sae weel.

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

  • For a short time the class remained puzzled at the question; but at last one little girl sung out “stockings and shune.”

    Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

  • Gien the man 'at has her to see tilt dinna ken to luik oot for a storm o' iron shune or lang teeth ony moment, his wife may be a widow that same market nicht: An 'forbye, it's again' the aucht comman'ment as weel's the saxt.

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

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