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| The Fanatic (extract 3) [Content label: serious] | Robertson, James | 4,519 | 3 | 0.66 | |
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... ma feet but she was awa. I stood there shakin. I had this big pain in ma baws. Like there was this big knot aw tangled ... ... I had this big pain in ma baws. Like there was this big knot aw tangled up. I felt I was gaun tae puke.’ ‘And did ... ... had a kinna study. He uised tae work at hame tae. He was a big shot in the Infirmary.’ ‘Ye kent ye were for it.’ ‘I was ... |
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| The Former Pupils' Guild of the Mary Erskine School 300 Club - Minutes May 1994 | 926 | 546 | 1 | 1.83 | |
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... bring cash boxes and donation box. Joan B will bring a BIG donation for programme notice. Arran will bring 42 ... |
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| The Former Pupils' Guild of the Mary Erskine School - Minutes May 1994 | Forrest, Mrs Shona C | 1,423 | 1 | 0.70 | |
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... a) Labels for furniture The proposed metal labels were too big. Miss [CENSORED: surname] reported that some of the ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 02 - Purity | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,055 | 2 | 0.65 | |
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... them, Danny, no middle way. And if you played with the big boys... Just after her fifteenth birthday, Jennifer had ... ... are in their pants. He won't wait for ever. What's the big deal about being a virgin anyway? It's only a word. It ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 03 - A Gey Dour Bitch | Blackhall, Sheena | 4,030 | 1 | 0.25 | |
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... as a sign". "A sign o fit, Da?" I speired, ma twa een as big as ashets. "A shair sign," gurred Mither, "that we'll be ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 09 - Millennium Moggies Inc. | Blackhall, Sheena | 1,657 | 2 | 1.21 | |
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... first past that post by a long way. When it grows too big for comfort, you can always eat it. I'm told they're very ... ... Well no, apart from the odd bull, it hasn't caught on in a big way in the animal world. Some tortoises have benefited ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 10 - Nothing Personal [Content label: lesser] | Blackhall, Sheena | 2,457 | 1 | 0.41 | |
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... after all. "I suppose you think you're bloody clever, Mr Big-Shot Writer? I suppose you thought, 'Stupid, drunken ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 12 - The Smiling Horse of Troy | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,474 | 3 | 0.86 | |
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... that it was a tie and that, now he was four and almost a big boy, he would often have to wear one. It straggled over ... ... clink of high-heeled shoes, approaching smartly. The big blue door yawned open and he found himself staring into ... ... left the room. He could hear her speaking to some other big person. "The wretched child's wet himself. Is there any ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 13 - Prune Stones [Content label: lesser] | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,692 | 1 | 0.27 | |
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... John jolted alive, like a jerky puppet. "Yon's ma pal. Big Wully. The pigs done him fur choring a Giro," he announced ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 14 - A Very Dysfunctional Family | Blackhall, Sheena | 2,104 | 1 | 0.48 | |
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... thirteenth labour of Hercules. He treated it all as one big macho thing. Men are such liars," she snorted, remembering ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 15 - Blessed wi the Gift [Content label: lesser] | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,717 | 3 | 0.81 | |
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... sign tellin us we war throwe Kilmarnock spirkit aff "Ma Big Kilmarnock Bunnet", bit Burns couldna bide awa lang noo, ... ... "D'ye iver hear tell o the twa Irish Rary birds, the big Rary bird an the wee Rary bird?" he speired o a suddenty. ... ... oot an hid a fecht, an the wee Irish Rary bird lost. The big Rary bird wis jist aboot tae haive him doon a great heich ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 17 - Veesitors [Content label: lesser] | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,511 | 1 | 0.28 | |
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... in his jaiket fan he spied the quine hersel comin frae the Big Hoose. The gentry wis aye haudin concerts an balls sae it ... |
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| The Gem | Blair, Anna | 272 | 1 | 3.68 | |
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... Thom wi' her long hair-braid We used to call 'The Squaw' Big Urquart first, then Jerry Vonn Was Heidie at St. Mick's Ma ... |
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| The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12 | MacDonald, Hamish | 2,071 | 7 | 3.38 | |
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... Deans turnt up at hauf five in the mornin an we hud a big scran-up - bacon, eggs, soasij, tattie-scones, black ... ... ees Da came ower fur some chow an aw, an Mr Gobbs hud ees big firritin bag slung ower ees shooder, an auld canvas gadget ... ... wher the mountains rose up taewards the clouds. Ther wis a big loch wae widded islands stretchin faur awey atween the ... ... led us doon a narra path through the trees, anen atween big rid fallen boulders. We dreeped doon a bank tae the ... ... stove an pumpt it up till it wis roarin flames, an pit a big pot oan fur a brew. Mr Gobbs set up some rods an we hud a ... |
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| The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3 | MacDonald, Hamish | 564 | 2 | 3.55 | |
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... frae oor street cawed Scobie interruptit an goes in ees big daft voice: "Heh! Stoap! Stoap! Somedae stoap that nun ... ... ursel." Sister Josephine stood an prayed hard. Maw gied a big push an Da went tae guddle me oot. The nun stepped forward ... |
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| The Hawthorn Tree - A true story | Hynd, George | 211 | 4 | 18.96 | |
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... Grew a wonderful thing A wee Hawthorn tree It wisnae very big, aboot twelve inches high Wi wee tiny branches reachin' up ... ... reachin' up fur the sky Fightin' fur growin' space in a big tangled mass O a' sorts o rubbish, an long chokin' grass ... ... rubbish, an long chokin' grass One wee tree all alone in a big muckle field An frae the winter winds there wis nothin' ... ... o that bonnie wee tree As it wis ripped oot the earth by a big J.C.B. ... |
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| The Heavenly Cow of Thebes [Content label: serious] | Blackhall, Sheena | 9,752 | 1 | 0.10 | |
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... web’s a corker. I met a cow in Delhi, a bobby-dazzler Big as a London bus Its horns so strong they’d puncture ... |
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| The Humpty Dumpty Man [Content label: serious] | Blackhall, Sheena | 6,223 | 3 | 0.48 | |
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... the moon's her pillow and stars shine round her head. The Big Round Moon Last night the big round moon walked down to ... ... shine round her head. The Big Round Moon Last night the big round moon walked down to the loch Carrying stars to drop ... ... flee. This warld o yird an ocean, it birls like a baa. Its big eneuch fur continents, bit whyles its unca sma. Fin lions ... |
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| The Ill Guidmither [Content label: serious] | Purves, David | 18,119 | 1 | 0.06 | |
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... lyke an it’s gittin waur bi the oor. It stertit near ma big tae, but nou it’s lyke the haill fuit wes on fyre. (He ... |
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| The kilt, oor ain identity, jist gets mair popular - March 28, 2005 | Shepherd, Robbie | 765 | 1 | 1.31 | |
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... wig, muckle socks like melodeons wrappit roon's queets an big sklappers o beets for aa the warl like Wee Alickie, o the ... |
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