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  • And the Laird was three years married without having a family—and he was sae left to himsell, that it was thought he held ower muckle troking and communing wi’ that Meg Merrilies, wha was the maist notorious witch in a’ Galloway and Dumfries-shire baith.

    Chapter XI 1917

  • I have no idea whatever of your going troking across a continent on a wild-goose chase.

    The Wrecker 1898

  • Rashleigh Osbaldistone is better ken'd than trusted in Glasgow, for he was here about some jacobitical papistical troking in seventeen hundred and seven, and left debt ahint him.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • Shak -- was not the man to do all the troking, bargaining, lying, going here and there, and making himself a motley to the view for 0 pounds, 0s, 0d.

    Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

  • And the Laird was three years married without having a family; and he was sae left to himsell, that it was thought he held ower muckle troking and communing wi 'that Meg Merrilies, wha was the maist notorious witch in a'

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

  • And the Laird was three years married without having a family; and he was sae left to himsell, that it was thought he held ower muckle troking and communing wi 'that Meg Merrilies, wha was the maist notorious witch in a'

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Osbaldistone is better ken'd than trusted in Glasgow, for he was here about some jacobitical papistical troking in seventeen hundred and seven, and left debt ahint him.

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Osbaldistone is better ken'd than trusted in Glasgow, for he was here about some jacobitical papistical troking in seventeen hundred and seven, and left debt ahint him.

    Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • And the Laird was three years married without having a family; and he was sae left to himsell, that it was thought he held ower muckle troking and communing wi 'that Meg Merrilies, wha was the maist notorious witch in a' Galloway and Dumfries-shire baith. '

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Slide 19: Classification  S troking manipulation  Pressure manipulation

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