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| Dipper: 34 - Jeannie | Begg, Dr James A | 672 | 1 | 1.49 | |
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... 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 ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 01 - 28.08.81 | 852 | 648 | 1 | 1.54 | |
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... 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 ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 27 - 16.01.82 | 852 | 633 | 2 | 3.16 | |
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... 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 ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 42 - 23.05.82 | 852 | 622 | 1 | 1.61 | |
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... is the world coming to? The Falklands Islands crisis is big news here, as I suppose it is everywhere: artists' ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 05 - 08.09.81 | 852 | 581 | 2 | 3.44 | |
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... 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 ... |
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| Dipper: 42 - The Paddy | Begg, Dr James A | 572 | 2 | 3.50 | |
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... 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 ... |
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| Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers | Hedderwick, Mairi | 572 | 2 | 3.50 | |
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... to tidy for her." Granma Mainland lived far away in the big city. She was coming to stay with them for a holiday. ... ... muttered Grannie Island to herself. Show Day was always a big event on the Island of Struay. At the Post Office, Mr and ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 06 - 13.09.81 | 852 | 565 | 2 | 3.54 | |
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... 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 ... |
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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 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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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 45 - 12.06.82 | 852 | 523 | 1 | 1.91 | |
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... letters. The weather continues to be gorgeous across the Big Water, and I've taken up health again - after playing ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 38 - 14.04.82 | 852 | 520 | 1 | 1.92 | |
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... out to the airport, and when we arrived back there was a big "Welcome Carol" [sic] sign and she was assaulted by about ... |
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| TV critic review column: TV's Ditched as I Switched on to Partying | English, Paul | 520 | 3 | 5.77 | |
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... cocktail stick hedgehog, the boys did lots of that 'what a big surprise' look they do whenever they're near a camera - ... ... countdown littered with references to "tonight's big party in Edinburgh". After the Big Fella peed all over our ... ... to "tonight's big party in Edinburgh". After the Big Fella peed all over our party plans again, maybe Auntie ... |
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| Better Ower Yer Thrapple | Fairnie, Robert | 511 | 1 | 1.96 | |
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... an the singer on the tape wis still giein San Francisco big licks but wi a slower an deeper vice. He set Eddie’s pint ... |
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| Dipper: 06 - The Byllies | Begg, Dr James A | 498 | 1 | 2.01 | |
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... wantit When the howkers' gear they ply, An treble heuks an big leid wechts Gae fleein throu the sky; Syne fricht the wits ... |
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| TV critic review column on The Moors Murderers | English, Paul | 498 | 1 | 2.01 | |
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... of Doctor Who. From the critics' point of view, it's a big ask. Even if Peake's interpretation of a ... |
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| The Almond Tree | Sangster, Maureen | 494 | 1 | 2.02 | |
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... by her mou or his bit naethin came o that except a muckle big funeral wi a lot o sponges an a lot o tears, Granny saying ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 49 - 08.07.82 | 852 | 466 | 1 | 2.15 | |
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... I'm itching from various insect bites: Canadian summer's big Catch 22 are the bugs!! I'm hoping to go to PEI (Prince ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 51 - 05.08.82 | 852 | 466 | 1 | 2.15 | |
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... 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 ... |
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| Dipper: 25 - The Doukie | Begg, Dr James A | Audio | 447 | 2 | 4.47 |
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... 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 ... |
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| Whit is a dug? | Hynd, George | 367 | 1 | 2.72 | |
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... black an’ white collies that round up the sheep An’ big Saint Bernard's cost a fortune to keep, Wee totty ... |
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| Biggam Collection Letter: 01 | Taylor, James | 357 | 1 | 2.80 | |
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... latter must be a pretty generous bloke if he's cashing out big eats to about fifteen people. I'm in complete agreement ... |
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| Dipper: 57 - Bank Pit | Begg, Dr James A | Audio | 350 | 1 | 2.86 |
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... Ower the heather moss; While doun the line, The Big Engine clanks awa Wi a load o hard-wrocht coal For ... |
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| Dipper: 05 - Fishers Tak Tent | Reid, John | Audio | 342 | 1 | 2.92 |
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... heuked an played fish efter fish, Till ten fat troot lay big an braw Like gowden guineas in a raw - But frae ... |
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| Kin Ye Mind? | Hynd, George | 338 | 2 | 5.92 | |
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... ye mind o searchin' fur puddocks and taddies Tae keep in a big sweetie jar An pinchin' tatties oot o the fields Tae roast ... ... so ah jist din ZEDS Kin ye mind o pabyin' at fitba Wi a big leather ba' wi a lace an lyin' on the ground flat on yer ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 11 - 08.10.81 | 852 | 336 | 1 | 2.98 | |
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... (i.e. U.S.A & Canada) so "Beaver Foods" put on a big turkey dinner at the residences tonight. It was really ... |
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| Ma Gairden | Hynd, George | 307 | 2 | 6.51 | |
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... Ah built a burd bath, an a wee totty barry Then added a big muckle gnome An noo ma ain wee cooncil hoose Is mair like ... ... like yon place Longleat Then a'body wid come tae see it In big que's ootside they'd wait 'Cos ah'd get masel a wee ticket ... |
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| A Bonnie Fechter | Templeton, Sheila | 305 | 2 | 6.56 | |
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... 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 ... |
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| Who was the man? | Hynd, George | 302 | 1 | 3.31 | |
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... Who? was the lad that chopped the logs to stoke up that big fire To heat the place and burn the boots of some fat ... |
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| Dipper: 54 - Fishers! | Begg, Dr James A | 300 | 1 | 3.33 | |
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... regales, And 'neath the shady bough he'll dream Of fish as big as whales. At peace with self, and fellow man, With Earth, ... |
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| Dipper: 56 - Oor Skip | Begg, Dr James A | 282 | 1 | 3.55 | |
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... There's some that sprauchle 'lang the ice, An roar like big bull seals, While ithers cry wi trimmlin vyce An ... |
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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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| Dipper: 36 - Minnons | Begg, Dr James A | 265 | 1 | 3.77 | |
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... aa the wee fish soumin by, Peenheids an beardies an ance a big troot, Then aicht fish swam in an juist fower swam oot - ... |
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| Biggam Collection Letter: 09 | Law, Madge Taylor | 261 | 1 | 3.83 | |
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... the clock as usual. Hope you like the photo, the two big ones are enlargements of the snaps I took myself. I hope ... |
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| Any other Pleb | Blair, Anna | 259 | 1 | 3.86 | |
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... Buttered toast and nursery games In winter after dark, My big hair bows and plimsoll shoes My pinafores for Drill And ... |
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| An epistle tae Wullie wi the broken jaw | Hynd, George | 250 | 1 | 4.00 | |
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... could hae been a bit wurse Than being force fed by some big buxom nurse, Whae wid make sure ye guzzled the wattery ... |
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| The Fallen Horse | Blair, Anna | 242 | 3 | 12.40 | |
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... icy street A Clydesdale horse Skliff and lose its feet. A big-big horse Sprachle, legs apart An' fankle its hooves Wi' ... ... street A Clydesdale horse Skliff and lose its feet. A big-big horse Sprachle, legs apart An' fankle its hooves Wi' the ... ... like that Up Kyle Street East. It looked that wild Wi'its big teeth bared And it pechin' hard W'its nostrils flared ... |
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| The Upperside Express or (the cycling cyclone) | Hynd, George | 236 | 1 | 4.24 | |
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... it fur a trike Wee John kin walk in front o her Wavin a big red flag As Joan peddles doon tae Penicuik Puffin her king ... |
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| The School Photograph | Blair, Anna | 229 | 2 | 8.73 | |
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... Boys with ties pulled-round a' sidieways. There was gawky big Sadie and Harold O'Grady Tizzie Bell with her wee button ... ... There were jerseys in fankles and socks down at ankles Big collars and pigtail skeewiff We'd Specky McGinty, his ... |
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| The Emmick and the Gresslouper | Hubbard, Tom | 224 | 1 | 4.46 | |
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... She’s ower the loch, and or the dawn She’ll fetch some big braw insect-Doctor. Zm zm : zm zm It wis the April she set ... |
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| See the Boat | Blair, Anna | 213 | 2 | 9.39 | |
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... Great day's here, You cannae beat Your once't a year, your big-big treat To sail the Clyde fae Broomielaw At risin' tide, ... ... day's here, You cannae beat Your once't a year, your big-big treat To sail the Clyde fae Broomielaw At risin' tide, wi' ... |
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| Daytime | Blair, Anna | 212 | 1 | 4.72 | |
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... scene To strut their buskin' on the green. There's this big dame in Irish clogs Hitches her skirts and jigs her jogs, ... |
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| Dipper: 33 - The Feather | Reid, John | 212 | 1 | 4.72 | |
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... troot I cast it ower Tuik it wi ne'er a second glower, Big or wee, it didna maitter, I could hae herriet every ... |
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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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| Cookers | Blair, Anna | 194 | 1 | 5.15 | |
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... Hinge'd to the grate To simmer a pot Keep it hot. The next big change A cast-iron range Edges to buff Wi' emery stuff, ... |
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| Tick | Blair, Anna | 194 | 1 | 5.15 | |
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... skint!) Of patchin', mendin', makin'-do Ma kept at bay the big Taboo, The credit, debt, goin' on the slate The things ... |
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| The Buik o Ruth: 02 - Psaum and Ca tae prayer | Borrowman, A S | 169 | 1 | 5.92 | |
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... STAUNAN An God bigna the houss, they fash for nought wha big at it; an God keepna the brugh, he waukens for nought wha ... |
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| Dipper: 04 - The Hedgehog | Begg, Dr James A | Audio | 167 | 2 | 11.98 |
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... 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 ... |
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| Tetchie Auld-timer | Henderson, John | 149 | 1 | 6.71 | |
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... Ma hurdies they’re aye achin. Ma big tae’s goat the goot. Ma hearin’s nae sae guid they days. ... |
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| Overheard at the Chippie: Big brither, wee brither | Blackhall, Sheena | 142 | 1 | 7.04 | |
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... a flamin scunner. No, ye canna. Dannie, can I clap yon big Alsation? Nuh. Stuff yer face wi this. Here's a banana. ... |
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