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Updated: May 5, 2025

Hugh Miller, when working as a stone-mason near Edinburgh, was served by a hodman, who was one of the numerous claimants for the earldom of Crauford all that was wanted to establish his claim being a missing marriage certificate; and while the work was going on, the cry resounded from the walls many times in the day, of "John, Yearl Crauford, bring us another hod o' lime."

A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) Calhoun - How to Get on in the World: A Ladder to Practical Success

Measter Horace, said he, 'didn't you save moy old mawther from being drowned by the boys vor a witch, noa, noa, I be true, and hate yearl and lawyer, and all the great volk.

Tobias Aconite - Edward Barnett, a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams : or, The Earl's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment

Hugh Miller, when working as a stone-mason near Edinburgh, was served by a hodman, who was one of the numerous claimants for the earldom of Crauford all that was wanted to establish his claim being a missing marriage certificate; and while the work was going on, the cry resounded from the walls many times in the day, of "John, Yearl Crauford, bring us anither hod o'lime."

Samuel Smiles - Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance