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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.
A Bonnie Fechter Templeton, Sheila 305 2 6.56

... day we heard a scraping ootside the kitchen door. He was big. His antlers telt a lang story, a hero's story, of ...
... And waited and watched while he took his time, his fine big heid lowered wi nae loss o dignity. And so he lat me feed ...
A Braw Guid Alairm Fairnie, Robert 1,498 1 0.67

... aye heard the soond looder when we opened the door tae the big bedroom press.” “Weel oor press wis backin on tae yours ...
A Fair Deal Blair, Anna 88 1 11.36

... Great angels, small ones Got to arrange Five Wee for a Big As the rate of exchange. Heads low in cahoots There's a ...
A Fairy (Liquid) Story [Content label: lesser] Smith, Mark R 4,326 1 0.23

... of varnish from its place on the shelf and, as he was too big to get turned around, reversed his way out of the door. ...
Afa sad news, bit thanks for the memories - March 21, 2005 Shepherd, Robbie 778 1 1.29

... wis the ploy as we did a take-off o Mr Pastry's lancers, big Ian flingin me across the stage, landing me in aneth the ...
A Fer Chauve Smith, Alex 23,344 5 0.21

... wis nae sign o them ata. Jonsar Eck then came across a big muckle spanner that hid been left ahin be the electrician. ...
... opened Jonsar Eck an the ither twa helpers gasped. "Oh nae Big Betsy". Och says the judge."I'll explain tae her if I see ...
... judge."I'll explain tae her if I see her." Jist wi that Big Betsy appeared an asks." Fit's wrang?" Noo the judge wis ...
... Fit's wrang?" Noo the judge wis in his element as he telt Big Betsy aboot the flooer. She asked him a puckle questions ...
... fit wye it his tae be second place?" asks the judge. Big Betsy growls."I got first prize wi this plant last year an ...
A few notes on old Kilwinning Town and the Biography of Robert Morrison, Crosshouse. Morrison, Mr Robert 5,211 12 2.30

... situated below the old Corse hill. I was a short time in big Red burn a pit that belonged to the Messers Baird’s There ...
... that belonged to the Messers Baird’s There was two pits big and wee allong side each other producing much coal for the ...
... and that was on the new railway then in construction. The big steam navvy as we called it then was working near to a ...
... produced had to be taken away by a steam pug driven by a big course man named Bob Bonnar. So my work was to shift two ...
... as we know everything comes to an end down here. So the big steam navvy finished his job and I was knocked out of work ...
A Good Bamming [Content label: serious] 'The Driver' 1,162 1 0.86

... orb that initiated the colossal explosion known as the Big Bang. Poor God! You can just imagine Him with his face ...
All That Glisters Donovan, Anne 2,713 6 2.21

... careful when you squeezed the tube so’s you didny get a big blob appearin at wanst, but efter a few goes ah wis up an ...
... shape and coloured it green but a bit squirted oot intae a big blob, so ah blotted it and when ah took the paper away the ...
... a shop is stealin. A lot of folk think lik that. Donna’s big brother Jimmy wanst tried tae explain tae me that it wis ...
... me that it wis OK tae steal ooty shops cos they made such big profits that they were really stealin affy us (the workin ...
... his word. In the end ah sellt ma dinner tickets tae big Maggie Hughes and all week ah wis starvin for ah only hud ...
A lock o hellery Johnson, Laureen 1,933 1 0.52

... the same source, implying that the quantity was a bit too big for the speaker’s liking? Or did N.E. Scots arriving in ...
Ane Auld Sang Purves, David 7,319 1 0.14

... n, moon muinlicht, n, moonlight muir, n, moor mukkil, a, big, much murner, n, mourner mynd, v, remember myndin, n, ...
An epistle tae Wullie wi the broken jaw Hynd, George 250 1 4.00

... could hae been a bit wurse Than being force fed by some big buxom nurse, Whae wid make sure ye guzzled the wattery ...
Any other Pleb Blair, Anna 259 1 3.86

... Buttered toast and nursery games In winter after dark, My big hair bows and plimsoll shoes My pinafores for Drill And ...
A Sair Fecht Smith, Alex 23,505 9 0.38

... noo at's nae ony surprise, In the efterneen er's a gey big change, Rain poors doon in the affa heavy range. Sunday ...
... o the crap is teen aff the grun, Fermer dis grin, ere's a big run. Tuesday 30th, Temp. 6/14 Dry is the day warm bit affa ...
... order, ten bags o sticks, ten bags o peats each. Ere wis a big back close an, Jonsar cood drive richt intae it nae ...
... intae it nae bother. That wis ae gweed thing, ere wis nae big carries. Farthest in tae the close bade Eenie an, on the ...
... a dizzen cans o lager, an a bottle o bacardi. He poored a big bacardi tae Tam an een tae himsel, washed it doon wi a can ...
A Small Book of Translations: 32 - Glossary & Notes Hutchison, Alexander 1,973 2 1.01

... is a low crouching dance; ee is you; lowse is loose; big eens are big ones; keckle is cackle, laugh loudly: haffets ...
... crouching dance; ee is you; lowse is loose; big eens are big ones; keckle is cackle, laugh loudly: haffets are side ...
...Auld Zimmery [Content label: serious] Kydd, Robbie 73,728 69 0.94

... Here, lemme gie yer face a dicht.' She, has to use a big bunch of tissues on my resentful face, and then several ...
... office to beard the Cock o the North (Officer-in-Charge, Big Charlie, Matron's hen-pecked 'Old Man' - what's in a ...
... but she'll be cross if she sees him licking his pencil. My big brother, Andy thinks, writes his figures very very fast ...
... Andy tries several deep breaths, as quietly as he can. His big brother can sharpen a pencil, but he can't. Andy needs to ...
... a squashed worm. The next he tries is better but much too big. The next is almost perfect but even bigger. Fiona, Andy ...
A Wee Scran o Herrin Fairnie, Robert 1,552 1 0.64

... the links. The first door thay chappit wis yin o thae big stane hooses wi its ain gairden an awthin an, as suin as ...
Awfy thochts: The closemouth jottings of Wullie MacKersall Glen, Michael Hamish 3,176 13 4.09

... that brolly Doon so low.' SEASONS GREETING Kenny's heid is Big an bald. An in the winter It gets cauld. But summer disnae ...
... Cannae pass the time. ROTARY CLUB Ma lassie's hamster's No big deal. Aw it does is Birl its wheel. Wee legs paidlin Fur ...
... bend. NICHT HOWL Ma hairy duggie Rins aff frae fowk. Ma big Shuggie's A feardie-gowk. Shuggie's even Feart fur the ...
... Pit oot the licht An he's feart tae bark. PET FOOD Ma big rabbit Wis a stotter. Then next door's whippet Went an got ...
... a stotter. Then next door's whippet Went an got 'er. Ma big Bessie Wis a beezer. Noo she's heidless In the freezer. ...
A wikk o shows taks me back an fore in time - April 25, 2005 Shepherd, Robbie 779 2 2.57

... Wednesday nicht it wis the Students' Show, Thursday, the Big Yin emsel Billy Connolly an Setterday dennertime I wis oot ...
... gweed in the lead role o Minnie Cooper. Syne it wis the Big Yin in the Music Hall an the first time we hid seen him ...
BBC Voices Recording: Aberdeen N/A Audio 13,536 9 0.66

... was an iron sink, not enamel, iron sink ye know, an we'd a big zinc bath and Da used tae sit in the bath an we'd tae ...
... o rice, because Ma was in the wash-hoose an there was a big biler goin an she was sweatin an she'd on her rubber apron ...
... rubber apron an //an oh my God!// F1041: //An her big boots.// M1042: An an if it was rainin the the the ...
... I would hae s- 'thingummybob', 'her wi the big nose', or 'her wi the// //droopy eyes' or you would try ...
... M1042: //yeah but// yeah 'drookit' is a big word. //That's when oh God ye're absolutely drookit an I ...

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