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He'd fallen aff a bridge, an' bruised it that bad. Aye, aye," a big sigh came again convulsively, "an' his faether not deid a month. Ma Tam wes sax feet in his socks a bonny lad, an' eh, eh, sik a guid laddie to his mither." Elizabeth felt a lump rising in her throat. She stroked the black alpaca arm next her in silent sympathy.
Mary Esther Miller MacGregor - 'Lizbeth of the Dale

"I dinna think ye ha'e made out your case, Major?" said the Scotch doctor, who felt sorely puzzled at my friend's logic. "If your faether had na gi'en the bond " "There is no saying what he wouldn't have done to the bailiffs," interrupted Dennis, who was following up a very different train of reasoning. "I fear me, Doctor," observed Quill, "you are much behind us in Scotland.
Charles James Lever - Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2

Phoebe Lenine, being a woman of some eight years old, shook the remains of the corn off her small blue lap with no signs of haste or discomposure, and, turning her back, called to a hidden corner of the yard. "Faëther! Faëther! Passon's come to see you!" "How d'you know I haven't called to see you, Miss Phoebe?" asked Boase, stepping into the passage.
F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse - Secret Bread
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