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Habost he will be verra bad three months or two months ago, and we waz thinkin he will die, and him with a wife and five bairns too, and four cows and a cart, but the doctor took a great dale of blood from him, and he is now verra well whatever, though wakely on the legs.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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"Whar did yon wakely body come frae, Burnbrae? it wes licht wark the day.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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"Ay, but he was ould now," Shane replied, "and too wakely to fight.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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