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Our pockets were full of deng, so there was no real need from the point of view of crasting any more pretty polly to tolchock some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood while we counted the takings and divided by four, nor to do the ultra-violent on some shivering starry grey-haired ptitsa in a shop and go smecking off with the till's guts.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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"Hooever," says the mannie, "we'll be in braw time; it's twal ere the sattlement begin, an 'I'se warran they sanna apen the kirk-doors till's till than."
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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"I hae seen him tee; but he's a gran 'gentleman grown, an' I wadna like to be affrontit layin 'claim till's acquaintance, -- walcome as he ance was to my hoose!"
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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It was jist like as wi 'Judas -- he maun gang till's ain.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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She went to the door, and called with a loud voice across the yard, through the wind and the clashing torrents, "Donal, sen 'Dummie in till's brakfast."
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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"He's a laddie 'at's been gien ower till's buik sin' ever I learnt him to read mysel '," Janet answered.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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Sic a ane 'ill gang straucht till's makker, an' fin 'a'thing there hame-like.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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"Gien I cudna lippen my Donal till's ain company an 'the hunger for better, I wad begin to doobt wha made the warl'," said his mother; and Donal's face flushed with pleasure at her confidence.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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It's verra kin 'o' ye to vrite till's in the verra moment o 'victory; but weel ye kent that amid a' yer frien's -- an 'ye canna fail to hae mony a ane, wi' a head an 'a face like yours -- there was na ane -- na, no ane, that wad rejoice mair ower your success than Janet, or my doo, Maggie, or yer ain auld obleeged frien' an 'servant,
David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864
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There's that laddie, Gibbie: I canna but think 'at gien he hed the tongue to speyk, or aiven gien he cud mak' ony soon 'wi' sense intil't, like singin ', say, he wad fin' himsel 'nearer till's nor he can i' the noo.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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