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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.
A Small Book of Translations: 15 - Catullus 14 Hutchison, Alexander 49 1 20.41

... down as soon as the Muses sussed it was him. Dicky-boy tilts at the mound of Minerva all in vain: forked and ...

SKARRS Forde, Catherine 5,474 33 6.03

... Swears he can spot one of them a mile off: Antennae, Danny-Boy. 'All over,' I growl, macho. Mister Derek's got the cheek ...
... I feel them hot through this sad black jacket my Old Boy made me wear today. I want to shrug the barber off. But I ...
... and I'm trussed like a black pudding in a tie and my Old Boy's jacket. New-mown hair jagging my neck. In church, for ...
... the cemmy in the dark. Be a pure buzz, that. Anyway, Danny-Boy, now you're here, what d'you snaffle?' We were in the park ...
... and key of her nippy wee eyes. I could have sworn my Old Boy clocked me sneaking out with the bottle tucked up my jook ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 16, recording 2: playing match the pairs and doing a jigsaw N/A Audio 2,549 13 5.10

... pieces.// F1093: This is Monday here. So what is the boy and girl doing on Monday? M1094: He's going to school. ...
... find the pieces for school? Right. //The girl and the boy going to school with their school bag.// M1094: //I'm ...
... think. M1094: Uh-huh. F1093: Right. Where's the boy? Cause you've got the girl. You need to get the boy. ...
... boy? Cause you've got the girl. You need to get the boy. M1094: [inaudible] //[?]That goes to the top, ...
... I wasnae calling you silly.// F1093: There's the boy, look. Pop him in. M1094: H- here it is. F1093: ...

A Small Book of Translations: 12 - Catullus 11 Hutchison, Alexander 211 1 4.74

... a mother bereft at the grave of her own sweet biddable boy – he's smiling still. Whatever it is, wherever he is, ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 16, recording 1: washing up N/A Audio 3,453 15 4.34

... falled off!// F1093: //I need, I need to find a little boy and a girl going to school, look.// M1094: Itself ...
... F1093: Right now you need to find M1094: The boy making sandcastle. F1093: the boy making a sandcastle, ...
... find M1094: The boy making sandcastle. F1093: the boy making a sandcastle, which is down the bottom. M1094: ...
... Yeah cause he does. F1093: Right. //And the boy and the girl in the swimming pool?// M1094: //[?]Too ...
... Uh-huh. [inaudible] F1093: Right, the boy and the girl going to school next. That's the little bit ...

Remember this Face! [Content label: serious] 'The Driver' 1,226 5 4.08

... that! A bus swung round the corner with Toothlock Doddy Boy at the controls. The vehicle was packed to the rafters ...
... driving Mill Owners in the city. I bade Toothlock Doddy Boy a good evening as I climbed into the cab. His shift for ...
... go and gasped for fresh air. Damn that Toothlock Doddy Boy! Did he not know that it is bus driving de rigueur to open ...
... suffering Death By Toosh on account of Toothlock Doddy Boy's ignorance. So let him in I did, and long did I rue that ...
... like bailing out and going home. Damn that Toothlock Doddy Boy! What was he up to? A paranoid voice inside my head was ...

Mephistophelean Ballant-Scherzo on ane Fife Legend Hubbard, Tom 288 1 3.47

... - See that boy Faust? He scunners me, The toffee-nebbit cratur; Aye on at ...

Kin Ye Mind? Hynd, George 338 1 2.96

... Kin ye mind the days o long ago When you were jist a boy Those days fair fu' o happiness A' filled wi mirth an joy ...

Letter from Frances Gardner 05 - 17/10/89 Gardner, Frances 348 1 2.87

... Kathryn had a "whizz kid" in looking for a job - a young boy with 5 Highers 7A's etc and a confessed computer Hacker!! ...

Dipper: 24 - Tribute to W.H.T.Inglis Reid, John 351 1 2.85

... Arrowe Park, Birkenhead: Site of 1929 International Boy Scout Jamboree. (Mr.Inglis was Scoutmaster of the Ayrshire ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biggam Collection Letter: 08 Trotter, May 455 1 2.20

... also. It is all young staff in the departments now and boy! do they know how to swing the lead and get away with it. ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 12, recording 4: playing with jigsaws and electronic toys N/A Audio 3,336 7 2.10

... my birthday. M1096: Okay. F1095: Aw, that's a good boy. I'll just hae a little bit. M1096: It's lovely. ...
... F1095: Fitt? M1096: Two girls that. That boy, that boy. It's only that boy. Nae that boy, nae that boy, ...
... Fitt? M1096: Two girls that. That boy, that boy. It's only that boy. Nae that boy, nae that boy, nay that ...
... Two girls that. That boy, that boy. It's only that boy. Nae that boy, nae that boy, nay that boy. No, that's ...
... that. That boy, that boy. It's only that boy. Nae that boy, nae that boy, nay that boy. No, that's a-. Nae that ...

Biggam Collection Letter: 20 Law, Madge Taylor 482 1 2.07

... joke he learned at school and it goes like this. "A little boy went shopping with his Mum & Dad and kept saying that ...

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 ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 07, recording 3: cleaning and tidying sister's bedroom N/A Audio 1,125 2 1.78

... fat?// F1102: two pieces, he ate a little girl and a boy. F1101: He ate a little girl and a boy? ...
... girl and a boy. F1101: He ate a little girl and a boy? //[inaudible]// F1102: //They were rabbits, and a ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 11, recording 3: making jigsaws indoors on a snowy day N/A Audio 5,666 10 1.76

... Celebration Castle!// F1103: //Mm. [inhale]// Oh boy! F1104: Where does that bit go? Er, I think that goes ...
... It doesna, does it? No. Stickin. F1103: Look. Oh boy, haud on, Mummy'll get-, no, dinna do that, cause you'll ...
... there, Mummy. She's gonna have her swim. F1103: Oh boy. F1104: She's gonna have a swim, because she's no had ...
... There's two flowers that go in there. F1103: Oh boy. F1104: And there's erm the wishing well that goes ...
... to dae this ain noo. //I'm gonna do.// F1103: //Oh boy!// That's the big ains, isn't it? //Hear that ...

Deadly Weapons [Content label: serious] Grainger, Cecilia 15,826 27 1.71

... STEW. Fur what? DIMPS. Bein bad…Ah wis a bad…Ah um a bad boy… STEW. Yur a man, man that’s gittin stronger every… DIMPS. ...
... Fuck sake! How long’s this gonnae go oan? CAMMY. Dimpsy boy, yur noh acceptin yur situation… DIMPS. He’s targettin me ...
... As Ah wis sayin… DIMPS. Fuckin acceptable bein mummy’s boy? Fuckin leper city bein daddy’s boy? CAMMY. Mrs Dimps? ...
... bein mummy’s boy? Fuckin leper city bein daddy’s boy? CAMMY. Mrs Dimps? DIMPS. Mr Cammy? Dimps runs at Cammy; ...
... STEW. Come oan you two? CAMMY. Hey Stew? Mibi Dimpsy boy wants some fantasy time…how ti kill yur nearest an dearest ...


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