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

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
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 ...
Smootie gengs ta Lerrick De Luca, Christine 2,412 1 0.41

... made a peerie herd noise. Sure enyoch, hit wirkit. A boy cam tae da back door an löt her in. 'Mam, der's sic a ...
Talking, Reading and Writing about Fiction Texts McGonigal, James,
Philp, Andrew		 3,138 1 0.32

... Wonka making hair cream? How do you know? (m) What kind of boy do you think Mike Teavee is? (n) What more have you ...
The Annals of Arbuthnott Part One Williamson, Isabella 23,042 1 0.04

... three feein' markets - always on market days. As a young boy, when John Watson's family flitted to the Wairds from ...
The Annals of Arbuthnott Part Two Williamson, Isabella 15,890 8 0.50

... and bow to the Queen, Turn my back on the brave sailor boy. Singing games I sent a letter to my love - the players ...
... name) says she'll die For her love in the rolling sky, (Boy's name) says he loves her, All the boys are fighting for ...
... three, Pray tell me who they be. (This girl then picks a boy to go into the centre with her.) The farmer's in his den ...
... of us there including the present Lord Arbuthnott, then a boy of about ten years old. A reward of a ten-shilling note ...
... I can still see the rueful smile on the face of the small boy. Mary however returned from where she had come, not only ...
The Borth’ick Waitter Rodger, Matt 21,032 1 0.05

... Davie Riddle whae played the bagpipes wi mei; i the Hawick Boy’s Brigade Pipe Band. Hei marriet ae lass frae Lanarkshire ...
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 ...
The Fanatic (extract 3) [Content label: serious] Robertson, James 4,519 1 0.22

... went tae private schuils. Ye didna see much o them. The boy was in his room playin Elvis Costello records, or he’d be ...
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, ...
The Fruits of Sacrifice. Sigmund Freud and William Robertson Smith Booth, Gordon K 4,587 1 0.22

... of those powerful emotional fixations which the developing boy acquires towards his mother and against his father — in ...
The Heavenly Cow of Thebes [Content label: serious] Blackhall, Sheena 9,752 2 0.21

... home! She-cat? You British like your animals. I honest boy; Ahmid will not cheat you! They dog your steps, will not ...
... and son The father issues soft or wordless orders The boy is smoking, his curls like a young Pan. A girl is ...
The Humpty Dumpty Man [Content label: serious] Blackhall, Sheena 6,223 1 0.16

... I go. Man-Seed At two, he filled my lap My little dough-boy Little man-seed. His curly hair smelt fine As new-baked ...
The Lan o Tea an Tigers: Poems fae the Muckle Furth Blackhall, Sheena 6,393 1 0.16

... Phnong. I hope you like my photo. I am a clean, healthy boy. (My cousin asks me, 'How could you make love to an old ...
The Mossflow Holton, Brian 33,939 2 0.06

... amang Shi Jin’s cottars wis Quarto Wang, an he wis the boy ti answer back at onie officiars; he wis that snell-gabbit ...
... laddie! Whit’s in yir buckets?” “Guid drink”, says the boy. “Whit is’t the bucketfu?” “Ay, ye like yir joke, freir.” ...
The Quarry Blackhall, Sheena 23,932 1 0.04

... mother): b.197 Big Tam Laggeran (a drug dealer: Myra’s boy friend) Neil Duguid (adopted son of Myra Anderson): b.1990 ...
The Stalking Cure [Content label: lesser] Corbett, Dr John B 6,214 5 0.80

... pynt-o-view) as like tae an ‘adorable’ or e’en an ‘eager’ boy. Mair on that anon. The Return of John Macnab reives ...
... a fine hard finish which gave it brilliancy like an eager boy’s. (pp. 116-7) Her bright hair, dabbled with raindrops, ...
... felt hat. She looked, thought Sir Archie, like an adorable boy. (p. 168) At least ane Macnab puzzles on thir kittle ...
... Janet Raden had been described as ‘like an adorable boy’, the same way Sandy Arbuthnot was always said to have the ...
... angle and checked herself in the mirror. ‘The principal boy,’ she murmured. (p 59) The retour o the repress’t ...
The Strange Case of Mr Stevenson and Professor Smith Booth, Gordon K 6,157 1 0.16

... but was quick to detect the eldest son’s potential and the boy himself drank insatiably at the well of knowledge. ...
The Toad on the Rock's Opinion Blackhall, Sheena 5,941 1 0.17

... moths gigantically fluttered through trees And one drowned boy, eyelids like floating petals, Steeped the water ...
The Tragedie o Macbeth Purves, David 22,141 2 0.09

... SIWARD, his son SETON, an officer attending on Macbeth BOY, son to Macduff An English Doctor A Scottish Doctor An ...
... learning leit, list lichtlie, belittle loue, love loun, boy lounder, thrash lourd, heavy lousum, loving lowden, calm ...
The Way Forward for the Scots Language Purves, David 11,636 4 0.34

... Miss, yon laddie hut me.' When the teacher enquired which boy she was talking about, the girl informed her, 'It wes John ...
... class, but it suddenly occurred to her that there was a boy by the name of John Totty. The little girl had translated ...
... name of John Totty. The little girl had translated this boy's name into English for the teacher's benefit. The ...
... social commentary, was dismissed as unacceptable, the boy's feelings appear to have been fully justified. To a ...
The Win an the Rain Blackhall, Sheena 8,793 7 0.80

... dreams of buns A hen like Noah’s ark, moors in the sun. A boy in nappies barely off the breast Giggles an coos, amazed ...
... the Bear motif, and had been inscribed 'to mummy's best boy'. B.O. adored his mother. B.O. adored his mug. When the ...
... the street, she almost fell over a scruffy looking little boy kicking a tin can along the gutter. 'Excuse me,' said ...
... me,' said Deirdre. 'Would you like to have some fun?' The boy nodded. 'Well, here's a phone card.' She jotted down ...
... lady answers it, hang up. And then ring back again.' The boy grinned, nodded, and grabbed the card. It was the sort of ...
Thomas Edward o Banff de Rusett, Wendy 2,896 1 0.35

... the acting position. The same actor can play Thomas as a boy and adult in Scenes 2 and 3. CAST, in all Scenes Two ...
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 ...
Why do we teach Grammar? Philp, Andrew 2,409 2 0.83

... after they had read with the teacher a passage in which a boy, who was also the narrator, had an argument with his ...
... up the problem that some pupils were unsure when the boy was telling the story and when he was speaking. This led ...
Winnlestrae [Content label: serious] Blackhall, Sheena 7,366 1 0.14

... Ritchie (b. Ballater 1929, d. Oshawa, Ontario 2000). As a boy he was partly raised by an aunt in a farm in Glen Muick. ...

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