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181 documents matching criteria (13.75% of corpus)

1,574,880 total words in matching documents (34.33% of corpus)

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
Selection of weblog entries [Content label: lesser] 1184 2,272 3 1.32

... 07/08/07 Post Boy Jobsworth As well as the crazies out on the street there ...
... people around you 8 hours a day at your work. The "post boy" in my office is over 50 years old and I can’t figure out ...
... old and I can’t figure out if he’s always been a post room boy or if he’s ever held a position of authority and is just ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 16 - 30.10.81 852 646 1 1.55

... Maggie Fri. 30th October. Dear Maw & Paw, Well, your boy's working for his money: I've spent most of this week ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 27 - 16.01.82 852 633 1 1.58

... johns, as February is usually the coldest time of year. Boy, do they feel strange! I'm doing a few extracurricular ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 31 - 07.02.82 852 645 1 1.55

... see "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940). Henry Fonda was just a boy, and looked just like Jane. At times the young John ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 36 - 24.03.82 852 869 1 1.15

... in the Aitken Centre. This was mainly the family of the boy Howie, one of the curlers, which is something to do with ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 48 - 11.07.82 852 430 1 2.33

... eaten to death by mosquitoes! This is "bug" season, and boy, are they ugly... I spent the weekend-plus finishing off ...
Travel journal: Peru 852 12,382 2 0.16

... comments: 'Is this the hot water jet, or is that young boy peeing?' Eventually the dead mosquitoes in the water and ...
... as it zigzagged down the hillside, it was raced by a young boy in Incan costume who yelled 'Sayonara!' at every corner as ...
Travel journal: USSR 852 35,187 4 0.11

... three days per week, helping a 7-year-old Anglo-Russian boy improve his reading to the point where he can gain ...
... to Winchester Public School. She has just started with the boy, Alex [CENSORED: surname], whose father is on secondment ...
... wins out. The ballet on Tuesday was a bit like that: boy meets girl, they fall in love and jump about a lot, aged ...
... partly because she hopes her children, a girl of 14 and a boy of about 7, will pick up some foreign language. The girl ...
Evie Barron, Charles 11,528 2 0.17

... that meant. I often wondered, but I never found oot. But, boy, I could spell it. (Chanting) ...
... spot”. We got a badge to wear a’ week, if we were the top boy or girl. Oh, she kent fit she was deein’, did Corkie. It ...
Guts Barron, Charles 22,515 3 0.13

... ask to be lee’d te, mither. Jist pit it doon tae your wee boy’s lucky charm. GEORGIE (To audience.) ‘At means he’s been ...
... 30. An’ you took them, without thinkin’ to check. Bright boy. They must think you’re their Santy Claus. DOD I’m sorry, ...
... Ma! GEORGIE (putting on a “mummy comforting her wee boy” voice) Dinna worry, my loon. I’ll tell the bobbies that ...
The Dark Shadows of A Midsummer Night's Dream Bell, Rosie 1,582 4 2.53

... particularly so, in their wrangling over the little Indian boy, Bottom's egotism is so natural and unasumed that he ...
... the back of our minds that Oberon wants the little Indian boy for duties other than that of page boy. After all, why ...
... the little Indian boy for duties other than that of page boy. After all, why does Titania. show such resistance to ...
... a king would surely have been the ambition of many a young boy? Titania, being the wife of the king would have been able ...
A Study into the Knowledge and Use of Scots Amongst Primary Pupils on Upper Deeside Blackhall, Sheena 29,793 2 0.07

... spoke English in the interview setting, but as one boy pointed out 'I don't know you', and the interviews with ...
... is not the language of their children. One primary seven boy was desperate to know 'how he had scored', so he could ...
Preparing to Meet the Minotaur Blackhall, Sheena 8,944 2 0.22

... We touched through glass, just as we always did. Birthday Boy (3 year-old; overheard on a bus) Fit a lot o flags are oot ...
... were tumbling, Out of a troubled sky. "Will I ever find a boy to take my hand?" The young girl asked, As political ...
Serendipity and ither poems in Scots and English Blackhall, Sheena 12,339 1 0.08

... Lan Tune: can be sung to a variation of ‘To be a Farmer’s Boy.’ Ten generations o my fowk hae vrocht the North East lan ...
The Fower Quarters: 02 - Purity Blackhall, Sheena 3,055 4 1.31

... several weeks she had been frightened to sit beside any boy in her class in case he brushed against her and in doing ...
... "You can't blame him, you know," Babs said. "He's a boy, after all. Their brains are in their pants. He won't wait ...
... dirty, back-of-the-van job between a half-drunk teenage boy and a terrified girl sobbing throughout and begging him to ...
... and sweat. Grey swirls of smoke began to fill it from the boy's cigarette. The windscreen was foggy with condensation. ...
The Fower Quarters: 10 - Nothing Personal [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 2,457 5 2.04

... son from Fraserburgh, Dougal Duthie by name, a raw-cheeked boy with a tangle of thick dark hair reaching down over his ...
... acknowledging their lecturer's sense of humour. "Why, dear boy, should we not turn her upside down, eh? Would that be ...
... young audience. He also had the satisfaction of seeing the boy's blushing discomfiture. Walking towards the statue-still ...
... the tiny heads of the violet nosegay. He stood behind the boy, looking over his shoulder. "Finished, Mr Chisholm? And ...
... rhythms and patterns. She is your challenge, dear boy, as much as that doorknob would be a challenge to you. If ...
The Fower Quarters: 12 - The Smiling Horse of Troy Blackhall, Sheena 3,474 7 2.01

... 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 his ...
... Such considerations were naturally lost on the little boy. His mother kept him close to the house like a sheep in a ...
... black. "G'wa an feed the cuddy," the veggie man told the boy. "He's a guid, quaet breet. Nae mony shelts staun as ...
... leave. "Fresh frae Turra this verra foreneen?" The little boy tugged his mother's sleeve. "Go on, Ma," he cajoled. "I ...
... a bun. She was tall, very tall, it seemed to the little boy, and she made him think instantly of a giraffe. "Mrs ...
The Fower Quarters: 13 - Prune Stones [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 3,692 1 0.27

... warning. After all it was a first offence - all the other boy's fault probably. Brian's co-accused was on Legal Aid but ...
The Fower Quarters: 14 - A Very Dysfunctional Family Blackhall, Sheena 2,104 1 0.48

... oblivious to all that had gone before. "There's a new boy coming tomorrow. Odd Christian name. What is it again? ...
The Fower Quarters: 15 - Blessed wi the Gift [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 3,717 1 0.27

... till we wan tae Stranraer wi a hert-rousin chorus o "Danny Boy". Oor trip ower the North Channel wis gey cauld an weet, ...

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