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  • March 1, 2008 at 8:21 am dey cudda spleet up an hab uz surrowndid?

    Happiness is a warm puppy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • My book came to-day, 'spleet-new' from the publishers.

    The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917

  • And this I will say, though kennin 'my place,' at Davit Lunan is as dainty a man as is in Thrums, an 'there's no one' at's better behaved at a bural, being particularly wise-like (presentable) in's blacks, an 'them spleet new.

    A Window in Thrums 1898

  • Ay, they've a wardrobe spleet new; an 'what think ye

    A Window in Thrums 1898

  • When Janet sped to the door her "spleet new" merino dress fell, to the pulling of a string, over her home-made petticoat, like the drop-scene in a theatre, and rose as promptly when she returned to slice the bacon.

    Auld Licht Idylls 1898

  • Here he comes, grinning, in his spleet new uniform, to demand our tickets of us.

    Tommy and Grizel 1898

  • When Janet sped to the door her "spleet new" merino dress fell, to the pulling of a string, over her home-made petticoat, like the drop-scene in a theatre, and rose as promptly when she returned to slice the bacon.

    Auld Licht Idyls 1898

  • Before I came to my senses, I could have sworn I was in another world; but, when I opened my eyes, there were the men at ease, holding their sides, laughing like to spleet them; and my gun lying on the ground, two or three ell before me.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • Before I came to my senses, I could have sworn I was in another world; but, when I opened my eyes, there were the men at ease, holding their sides, laughing like to spleet them; and my gun lying on the ground two or three ell before me.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

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