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  • "Been heah all de evenin '; come down right early afte' suppeh, and went to baid like he was sick or tarr'd or somethin '."

    The Price Francis Lynde 1893

  • For my part, I never wish to see a kilt in the country again, nor a red-coat, nor a gun, for that matter, unless it were to shoot a paitrick; they're a 'tarr'd wi' ae stick.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • For my part, I never wish to see a kilt in the country again, nor a red-coat, nor a gun, for that matter, unless it were to shoot a paitrick; they're a 'tarr'd wi' ae stick.

    Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

  • For my part, I never wish to see a kilt in the country again, nor a red-coat, nor a gun, for that matter, unless it were to shoot a paitrick; they're a 'tarr'd wi' ae stick.

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • For my part, I never wish to see a kilt in the country again, nor a red-coat, nor a gun, for that matter, unless it were to shoot a paitrick: -- they're a 'tarr'd wi' ae stick.

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

  • He should be duck'd, as an incendiary, tarr'd as a nuisance, feather'd as a foul traitor, hang'd ----

    A Collection of Plays and Poems, by the Late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg County, in the State of Virginia. Now First Published Together. 1798

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