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  • “Never fash your beard about that, Master George Heriot,” said Richie, totally undismayed; “but tell me when and where I am to sifflicate you for eight hundred pounds sterling, for which these jewels stood engaged?”

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • "Never fash your beard about that, Master George Heriot," said Richie, totally undismayed; "but tell me when and where I am to sifflicate you for eight hundred pounds sterling, for which these jewels stood engaged?"

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

  • -- 'Aweel, aweel, Laurie,' said I, 'it may be as you say', but since I am clear of the tawse and the porter's lodge, sifflicate wha like, deil hae Richie Moniplies if he come sifflicating here again. '

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

  • "May I sifflicate your Majesty to be gracious unto her?" said Richie;

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

  • He would not a sifflicate Sir Arthur, and advise him to stay at home, and so keep the rhino for the roast meat!

    Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

  • And where now might Timothy Tipkin sifflicate that it may behappen to be for to come from?

    Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

  • Your noble onnur knows that I'm a be apt to let my tongue mag a little, when my wits be a set a gaddin; and whereupon the case is as witch your noble onnur was pleased to sifflicate me upon, in your last rite onnurable and mercifool letter.

    Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

  • “May I sifflicate your Majesty to be gracious unto her?” said Richie; “being that she is, in respect of this morning’s wark, my ain wedded wife, Mrs. Martha Moniplies by name.”

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • I, ‘it may be as you say’, but since I am clear of the tawse and the porter’s lodge, sifflicate wha like, deil hae Richie

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • a bin down with me; and I do find that sooth and trooth he be verily a son of my own begettin; and thof I say it a man may be proud of sitch a son; and as your ever gracious onnur wus most mercifooly pleased to sifflicate, a wus born a gentleman, for a has his head fool and fool of fine notions.

    Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

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