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Examples
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Now hitching the yauds to one end and the oxen to the other, the animals were cautiously started by the twin drivers.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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"Twa twin yauds, twa twin oxen, twa twin lads, and a chain forged by a smith of kind."
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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--- Landlord, get us our breakfast, and see an 'get the yauds fed
The Black Dwarf 1898
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-- And that's very true -- I hae nae time to be standing here clavering -- Landlord, get us our breakfast, and see an 'get the yauds fed -- I am for doun to Christy Wilson's, to see if him and me can gree about the luckpenny I am to gie him for his year-aulds.
The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801
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Nay, by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that’s the haunch and the nombles, and e’en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come back for it with one of the yauds.”
The Monastery 2008
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And that’s very true — I hae nae time to be standing here clavering — Landlord, get us our breakfast, and see an’ get the yauds fed — I am for doun to Christy
The Black Dwarf 2004
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Nay, by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that's the haunch and the nombles, and e'en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come back for it with one of the yauds. "
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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