tak's

And whiles the doubie o 'the school tak's lead o' a 'the rest,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

"Weel," says I, "it tak's a michty lang road to tell you what ony three-'ear-auld bairn in the G-O goes cud tell you in a jiffy."

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Sandy juist tak's a dose o 'medicin', an 'starts to wirry awa' at

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Let's see; it's thirty miles frae there to the toon, an 'it tak's a hale day to cover the distance wi' a loaded kairt o 'tawties, let me tell ye!

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

"Well," she said, "he sometimes goes booin 'his pottery about t'rooads an' t'fields an 'tak's na nooatish o' neabody, but at udder times he'll say 'Good morning, Dolly,' as sensible as owder you or me."

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

When I was young, if I'd sen the like o 'that, I'd gotten a smack i' the side o 'the heid that wudda garred the wa' tak's anither.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Sandy on the shuder; an 'ane o' them says -- "Ay, man; it's no mony fowk that tak's their lum hat an 'their umberell to their bed wi' them."

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

"T tak's them a 'but ane," he roared in the middle o 'the game; an' he grippit up a nivfu 'o' the crack-nets, an 'into his moo wi' them.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

He tak's one i 'one way, an another i' another; but if He tak's em to Hissel they're better off than they'd be wi 'us.'

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

An 'it tak's brass to keep a decent' ouse over your yead.

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920