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454 documents matching criteria (34.50% of corpus)

2,946,861 total words in matching documents (64.24% of corpus)

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 01 - 28.08.81 852 648 1 1.54

... I'd better get cleared up and ready to go. It's a strange, big country, but I think I'll enjoy my stay. I'll write again ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 02 - 31.08.81 852 946 1 1.06

... I'm settling down better now. Edward, or "Tomo", is a nice big chap who's studying P.E. and hoping to get into the soccer ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 04 - 04.09.81 852 921 1 1.09

... He's a bit homesick too and wondering if he hasn't make a big mistake. Although I miss home, and I'm missing Carole, I ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 05 - 08.09.81 852 581 2 3.44

... Sept. 1981 Dear Maw, Paw, & Al, On duty. Yes, today's big surprise is, I've got a job, of sorts!! Your globetrotting ...
... or not, it's all so strange, usually in subtle rather than big ways. Like the much larger size of the cars, the standard ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 06 - 13.09.81 852 565 2 3.54

... raucous, and more impersonal. Hockey - ice hockey - is the big game here, and their big world event, the Canada Cup, is ...
... Hockey - ice hockey - is the big game here, and their big world event, the Canada Cup, is on just now. There was a ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 11 - 08.10.81 852 336 1 2.98

... (i.e. U.S.A & Canada) so "Beaver Foods" put on a big turkey dinner at the residences tonight. It was really ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 12 - 13.10.81 852 716 1 1.40

... Canada! Mind you, Long John Baldry - remember him? - is big here still, and is playing locally later this month. I'm ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 20 - 29.11.81 852 964 1 1.04

... was serious or not. Uncle Billy wrote, and also sent me a big Scottish Field calendar, which was good of him. I must ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 25 - 02.01.82 852 1,378 1 0.73

... the Tigers - Huskers game just as Clemson was making the big play. Nebraska made the best of the break, forcing a ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 26 - 09.01.82 852 1,037 1 0.96

... took about 1¼ hours to come thro', and Montreal was a BIG airport. You could fit about 7 or 10 Prestwicks into it! I ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 27 - 16.01.82 852 633 2 3.16

... That should take care of my copious free time... The big talking-point here just now is the earth tremors that have ...
... shaking the eastern seaboard all week. I've only felt the big one, which woke me up last Saturday morning. The whole ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 30 - 02.02.82 852 1,008 1 0.99

... softly thro' the trees. The Lodge at Mactaquac is a big wooden building surrounded by trees, snow, and "skidoos" ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 36 - 24.03.82 852 869 1 1.15

... sent you a St Patrick's Day card (March 17) - it's really big over here with all the 100th generation Oirish, who use ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 38 - 14.04.82 852 520 1 1.92

... out to the airport, and when we arrived back there was a big "Welcome Carol" [sic] sign and she was assaulted by about ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 42 - 23.05.82 852 622 1 1.61

... is the world coming to? The Falklands Islands crisis is big news here, as I suppose it is everywhere: artists' ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 45 - 12.06.82 852 523 1 1.91

... letters. The weather continues to be gorgeous across the Big Water, and I've taken up health again - after playing ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 49 - 08.07.82 852 466 1 2.15

... I'm itching from various insect bites: Canadian summer's big Catch 22 are the bugs!! I'm hoping to go to PEI (Prince ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 50 - 21.07.82 852 912 2 2.19

... farmlands full of PEI tatties, Ayrshire cattle, and big wooden farmhouses. Miles upon miles of beach ... of all ...
... upon miles of beach ... of all the North Shore is one big beach-come-provincial park. Ann's family was very good to ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 51 - 05.08.82 852 466 1 2.15

... anniversary. I must try to do better next year for the Big Two-Five. I hope that you had a great day. My excuse is ...
Travel journal: USSR 852 35,187 13 0.37

... the bags and case to the nearest bus stop a chap in a big black official taxi obviously took pity on us and, ...
... me the way to the English section - "Daniel Deronda" is a big hit this year it seems - and told me that the Progress ...
... Thursday Sept 29th Another fine day - blue sky and warm. Big lazy end-of-season wasps stagger into buses and dodge ...
... eat it even when it's freezing cold. We ambled past the big wheels and boat pond, along the river to Gagarinskaya, and ...
... unsuccessfully to part them but at last is won over - big wedding finale and more exuberant jumping. The Palace of ...
The Former Pupils' Guild of the Mary Erskine School 300 Club - Minutes May 1994 926 546 1 1.83

... bring cash boxes and donation box. Joan B will bring a BIG donation for programme notice. Arran will bring 42 ...
Food ideas Anderson, Wendy 2,116 2 0.95

... Ingredients: c. 10 new potatoes, 3 rashers of bacon, big dollop of mayo, (spring onions), (chopped pepper), ...
... bacon is done. Put the egg yolks (NOT WHITES) in a bowl big enough to hold all the spaghetti, and grate in the ...
Evie Barron, Charles 11,528 3 0.26

... I jist imagined a’ the ashes mixed up thegether in a great big ashpan underneath the furnace. It never occurred to me ...
... But fan you think o’t, we’ve a’ been peyin’ a great big fortune in taxes for wir ain ex-plor-a-tions an’ ...
... be seein’ you there, een o’ these days, Toots? That’s the big question, eh? I wonder if they would have operated on me ...
Fooshion Barron, Charles 17,826 7 0.39

... they looked sae licht in the men's hands. An' that great big thing gaun roon' an' roon' beside ye, claitterin' an' ...
... on. GLADYS A fire had broken oot. And there was this great big pile o' ... rubble ... in the street. There was ARP men ...
... have, I tell you. The Bonaccord Centre's there. A great big building. BESSIE Aye, at the side o' the street. On the ...
... ower the place. Or they would be crossed and leave great big blots in the middle o' a word. We had to mak' little pads ...
... mither died, folk ca'ed Morrison moved into that hoose - a big faimily for the size o' the hoose. There was him and her; ...
Guts Barron, Charles 22,515 4 0.18

... Dod. It’ll come in handy. Hoo did ye come by it? DOD (Big wink) Dinna ask to be lee’d te, mither. Jist pit it doon ...
... to follow the fall of her finger into the barrel with a big head movement.) So it’s best niver to think ava’. That’s ...
... taste. Get it doon ye. (She hands her the bottle.) A good big scoof, noo. (Reluctantly, Teenie takes a drink.) A drappie ...
... Chrissie is avoiding her eye.) Thirty year’s an affa big gap. CHRISSIE (softly) I ken. (Pause.) But it’s maybe fit ...
Dipper: 04 - The Hedgehog Begg, Dr James A Audio 167 2 11.98

... gies them that meddle a guid wheen mair flegs, Than ony big bull wi its horns. He keeps cockit his lugs when he's ...
... foxes or dugs, He'll curl himsel intae a baa. Like a big broun Scotch Thistle, he caumly reclines, Wi the thocht ...
Dipper: 06 - The Byllies Begg, Dr James A 498 1 2.01

... wantit When the howkers' gear they ply, An treble heuks an big leid wechts Gae fleein throu the sky; Syne fricht the wits ...
Dipper: 07 - Furst Bluid Begg, Dr James A 1,246 4 3.21

... gin I parked the caur oot o sicht aff the drive intae the Big Hoose, an cannily made doun the ruch road that cam oot ...
... gemm - in fact, it wis oor furst nicht oot efter the big yins, the nettin gangs, havin cut oor teeth on the ...
... oot Ian, an Mr. Johnston wha rentit the fishins frae the Big Hoose, an him no a byllie. ‘Aw, there's juist the three o ...
... skelpit aff throu the wid back tae the caur, like a pair o big-gemm hunters wi a pig on a pole. Sin we niver did fin oot ...
Dipper: 14 - The Communication Gap Begg, Dr James A 1,013 9 8.88

... the village gangs were giein us the rin-aroun, nettin the Big Boose watter yae nicht, then the puils ablow the village ...
... the Belgian byllie, wi twa walkie-talkies, heidit for the Big Hoose, while we tuik the ither yin twa miles ablow the ...
... rin intae - an this nicht wis nae exception! Jock, Tam, Big Mick an mysel were hauf-wey across the meedow whan a ...
... an sidieweys till nearhaun the fence - aa, that is, except Big Mick. Mick workt the ferms an kent a thing or twa aboot ...
... ferms an kent a thing or twa aboot beasts - ‘Awa ye go, ye big fearties!' he jeered. 'It's only yin o thae big Romagnola ...
Dipper: 16 - The Saumon an the Wee Broun Troot Begg, Dr James A 1,191 8 6.72

... hame tae a wee broun troot. As wee troots go he's no that big, But cocky, smert an unco trig, Aa dressed up in a gowden ...
... cry oot 'I'm sic a braw wee prince, Ower troots an fishes big an smaa I'm shuir tae rise abune them aa; Gin I grow big I ...
... big an smaa I'm shuir tae rise abune them aa; Gin I grow big I maun be King, For facts are chiels that winna ding!' - ...
... Then luikin again at his muckle jaw, Thocht - 'He micht be big, but he's no that braw!' As time gaed by he grew less ...
... their wits, Near giein them aa aquatic fits!' Wi that the big fish gied a froun, Syne flickt his tail an luikit roun, ...
Dipper: 20 - Cops and Robbers Begg, Dr James A 1,151 6 5.21

... At the back-en, whan the big seatroot an furst grilse stert rinnin the burns, some in ...
... o the hedge an courit doun nae mair nor five yairds frae Big Mick withoot even jalousin we were there!' ‘Aye,’ grinned ...
... or three mair nor they kent aaready!' cut in Wull - for big Ian himsel wis niver short o three sweir words whan yin ...
... wis drappin aff tae sleep! Sae we decided tae gae doun the Big Hoose watter for an oor tae check the Gairden Puil, for it ...
... gey eerie, an we were gled tae reach the open spaces o the Big Hoose gairden whaur we sprauchlt on the gress ablow the ...
Dipper: 25 - The Doukie Begg, Dr James A Audio 447 2 4.47

... sarks an semmits tae, An syne get yokit in Tae big a dyke o sods an stanes Across its shalla tail, An mak ...
... At breist-stroke or the crawl, Till yin an aa, baith big an smaa, Wis chitterin wi the cauld; Then courit-doun ...
Dipper: 26 - The Technicality Begg, Dr James A 2,217 9 4.06

... he did mind tho, wis whan some o the wee buggers, or their big brithers, tuik it intae their heids tae hae a go at the ...
... Ayr Pier, convertit for rakin saumon across the back, wi a big treble heuk an leid wecht insteid o the paternoster. ...
... Dam Puil. Jimpy McGinty's there, fishin juist ablow the big tree stump. Ah don't think he saw me, but he moved awa ...
... Neil?' Neil pyntit tae a bit juist dounstream o the big stump left efter a twa-hunner year auld beech tree had ...
... it awa. He wad be awfy pit oot if it broke, wi him intae a big fish, an he lost his beer-money!' A fortnicht later the ...
Dipper: 30 - 'Puggie' Begg, Dr James A 1,346 9 6.69

... wha, in a season, cuid kill forty or fifty saumon wi his big rod an bareheuks - as mony or mair nor some o the netters. ...
... an they aye had a fag lichtit, ready tae burn aff the big bare heuks if the byllies cam near. They kent maist o the ...
... Byllie wis too weel kent and wad stay oot o sicht while Big John and mysel fished the watter, keepin as near Puggie as ...
... watter. Tae luik the pairt, we were dressed like scruff, Big John wi an auld torn watter-proof an jeans, an me wi an ...
... afore he went back hame tae Glesca. 'S that richt, John?' Big John, wha wis a retired dominie, an too weel spoken tae ...
Dipper: 34 - Jeannie Begg, Dr James A 672 1 1.49

... daily lark! O hou ye loued tae walk the beach, An tryst wi big black dugs, An heich on hin-legs staun, fou-streitch, Tae ...
Dipper: 35 - Fair Cop Begg, Dr James A 2,228 13 5.83

... fou o snags, wi open meedaes on the south bank, an the Big Hoose gairdens slopin doun tae the watter's edge on the ...
... o byllies, an at the hinner-en had juist John the Dominie, Big Wull frae up the watter, an young Mick, oot on his furst ...
... furst nicht as a prentice byllie, tae gaird the Dam Puil. Big John set himsel doun by the faur side o the dam-dyke, ...
... licht gaun aa-roads, frae the faur bank. 'Whit the Hell's Big John daein?' growled Wull. 'That's buggert up everything!' ...
... wis parked impidently ootside yin o the smert hooses! Whan Big John jyned us he confirmed this, by tellin us hou he had ...
Dipper: 36 - Minnons Begg, Dr James A 265 1 3.77

... aa the wee fish soumin by, Peenheids an beardies an ance a big troot, Then aicht fish swam in an juist fower swam oot - ...
Dipper: 42 - The Paddy Begg, Dr James A 572 2 3.50

... cuttie coat, Smilin the smile o a Politeecian; While twa big gairdian angels Cairt his bags an luik aroun, As if tae ...
... We slide intae Euston, An the Meenister glides awa In his big black caur. ___ smeekit/smoke-blackened mirk/darkness ...
Dipper: 44 - 'Butch and Sundance' Begg, Dr James A 1,737 2 1.15

... day…… but ane o his mates had taen five oot frae ahint yon big stane ower there on Monday…… There were nae byllies ...
... tryin a wee bit o psychological warfare, 'Ye're in big eneuch trouble as it is, withoot rinnin awa. We ken wha ye ...
Dipper: 46 - Jenny Wren's Jaunt tae Islay - May 1983 & July 1984 Begg, Dr James A 1,340 2 1.49

... the tap o the Doctor's caur An him an the rest inside. My big freen “Iona” had us onboard. She works for a fella ...
... West o Nor-West. Nae nonsense wi beatin an tackin, The big yin went straucht as a bullet, Wi niver a thocht aboot ...
Dipper: 50 - The Auld Jenny Heron Begg, Dr James A Audio 684 2 2.92

... unsuspectin wee treat Tae linger ower lang forenent her big feet. Stey still, haud a meenit, Auld Jenny's steirin, ...
... hauf-chucklt afore she breks loose, Syne draps the big eel, then grups it again, Pecks twa or three times, ...
Dipper: 51 - Annyntit Begg, Dr James A Audio 1,149 1 0.87

... the thorn hedge at the back o it wis an estate o bonny big hooses wi fancy gairdens. But whit had made their ploy ...
Dipper: 54 - Fishers! Begg, Dr James A 300 1 3.33

... regales, And 'neath the shady bough he'll dream Of fish as big as whales. At peace with self, and fellow man, With Earth, ...
Dipper: 56 - Oor Skip Begg, Dr James A 282 1 3.55

... There's some that sprauchle 'lang the ice, An roar like big bull seals, While ithers cry wi trimmlin vyce An ...
Dipper: 57 - Bank Pit Begg, Dr James A Audio 350 1 2.86

... Ower the heather moss; While doun the line, The Big Engine clanks awa Wi a load o hard-wrocht coal For ...
Dipper: 61 - Double Anyntit Begg, Dr James A 910 3 3.30

... the grapevine said they'd got themsels a 'minder' - a big heid-banger wi a Black Belt in Karate - or sae the story ...
... an anither crashed intae the wids, while nearhaun a big stramash wis gaun on that drew my ee juist at the wrang ...
... went awa hame! 'An see yon nicht at the Tidal Puil…. yer big mistake wis walkin abreist comin doun thon pad. If ye'd ...
Foo Mony Hoolets? Blackhall, Sheena 122 1 8.20

... Sic a crash) There is Skinnymalinkie Hanna Fatty Hetty big an broon There's a hoolet caad Horatio Fa ay sleeps upside ...
Katy the Crocodile Blackhall, Sheena 2,194 2 0.91

... There is Skinnymalinkie Hanna Fatty Hetty big an broon There's a hoolet caad Horatio Fa ay sleeps upside ...
... doctor, my chikk's burnin I will takk a mixture or a great big peel Sen fur the doctor cause I'm nae weel Postie Dunt, ...
Loon (extract) [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 3,235 3 0.93

... Da pued a hauf o fuskey fae his jaiket pooch an cowped a big slug o't inno his mug o tea. A "birse cup", he caas it. ...
... his mug o tea. A "birse cup", he caas it. "See him, yer big loon," he said tae my Ma (he ay makks oot I'm nae his ...
... ae body in yer faimly tae like ye, div'nt ye noo? "He's a big brosie kinno a chiel," quo Granda. "Nae a shilpit wee ...
Minnie Blackhall, Sheena 32,033 5 0.16

... mither Sally an the kitchie deem Meg Ramsay cried aa the big fowk intae the ferm kitchie fur a plate o yaval broth. ...
... they hae daen withoot Jock this lasy fyew wikks, at the big toun dairy tfar his maister's mither bedd in her fine braw ...
... she said her prayers like her faither hid telt her...the Big Prayer noo, nae the little een, though sometimes she said ...
... fin I becam a man, I pit awa aa bairn ferlies.... Yer a big quine noo, sister, ye winna be needin a dallie there in ...
... a thoosan ither jobs that needin daein. Aften, fowk at the big hooses wadna lat the milkmen chap at the front door, ...

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