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After a deal o 'tackin' and beatin 'about, which enabled me to find out that he'd left the sea an' taken to business on his own account, which in them parts seems to mean loafin 'about doin' little or nothin ', I went slap into the subject that was uppermost in my mind, and says I to him, says I, they does a deal o' slavin 'on this here coast, it appears -- Black Ivory is a profitable trade, ain't it?

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"True, lad, we can; but it'll cost us a dale o 'tackin' to make up for lee-way.

Martin Rattler 1859

Fud Tyme! larm, heer horkin in teh nite an wunder hoo an hwere, praps find a prize in tehir shoos, find tehmselffs involvt in a case ov teh midnite-chays-sillees, hav pointee enz tackin tows or bed-weezuls, as we callum.

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Balfour, [1014] was tackin carying a writting, whiche did open the maist secreat thing was devised in the Counsall; yea, these verray thingis whiche war thocht [1015] to have bene knawin but to a verray few.

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Capitane Alexander Halyburtoun, a man that feared God, taryed with certane of his soldiouris behynd, and maid resistance, till that he was first schote and tackin.

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"If yer leddyship will be tackin 'a seat in the machine," he hazarded, "it'll maybe save ye the trail up the brae."

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After that certane dayis we had deliberat what was to be done, and that ordour was tackin for suppressing of all monumentis of idolatrie within that town, and the places nixt adjacent, determinatioun was taikin, to send some message [848] to the Quene, than Regent; for sche had bruted,

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The Cardinall moved boith heavin and hell to trouble the Governour, and to stay the preaching; but yitt was the battell stowtlye foughtin for a seassone; for he was tackin, and was put first in Dalkeith, after in Seatoun.

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Capitane of his house, John Somervaill, (whiche was tackin without lang persuyte,) confessed and affermed.

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Heirupoun was consultatioun tackin; and in conclusioun, it was found less domage to tak ane Appointment, albeit the conditionis war nocht suche as we desyred, than to hasard battall betuix two suche ennemeis.

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