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  • Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.

    Waverley 2004

  • Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.

    The Waverley 1877

  • Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.

    Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

  • Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.

    Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

  • Guan Yu slains Yan Liang, one of the most prominent and highest-ranking general under Yuan

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Guan Yu slains Yan Liang, one of the most prominent and highest-ranking general under Yuan Shao, at the Battle of Baima.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • That’s the problem: It’s the toxic smog which is covering Washington and the White House – as Lucy would say: “That ’slains everything”….well, almost everything……add in the alcoholic haze to the toxic smog and you’ve got the present prescription for disease and disaster.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: December 23, 2006 2006

  • Uppon this the Ennemy enters, kills and slains all that he finds, so one did not make an escape, saveing one that was found alive; but he stayed not long, for in a short time after his fortune was as the rest; for as he was brought to one of the Forts of the Irokoits, as he was bid to sit down he finds a Pistolet by him, and takes it at adventure, not knowing whether it was charged or no.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

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