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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

  • "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

  • --- Landlord, get us our breakfast, and see an 'get the yauds fed

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • -- 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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