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Correspondence from Canada: Postcard 07 - 15.07.82 852 65 3 46.15

... and I've almost finished Ch. 3. Took time off to swim in the Gulf of St Lawrence, eat seafood & PEI ...
... by more mosquitoes etc. Itch, itch, tan, tan, work, work, swim, swim, munch, munch, say no more! Love, [CENSORED: ...
... mosquitoes etc. Itch, itch, tan, tan, work, work, swim, swim, munch, munch, say no more! Love, [CENSORED: forename] ...
Preparing to Meet the Minotaur Blackhall, Sheena 8,944 1 0.11

... will lie with the nets and seaweed I will practise not to swim against the tide. Sleep Chimneypots with the fire gone ...
Serendipity and ither poems in Scots and English Blackhall, Sheena 12,339 1 0.08

... But she can hop and she’s alive And oh the joy to see her swim! Raja is blind. A single shot Robbed him of sight. Such ...
The Boddamers' Monkey Blackhall, Sheena 8,148 2 0.25

... dead as a foot scraper gathers dust. A soup of polyps swim in vinegary limbo. A sperm whale swings in its chains. A ...
... lay waving its knickers Jolly's a picnic party Off to swim in the bay Across the harbour bar Seals jumped in doubles. ...
The Fower Quarters: 02 - Purity Blackhall, Sheena 3,055 1 0.33

... dropping the screw cap into the bath as the room began to swim around her and as the urge to vomit rose in her throat. ...
Smootie gengs ta Lerrick De Luca, Christine 2,412 1 0.41

... up. Da fardest dey got wis da Clickimin Centre fur a swim an a ride on da flumes. Afore lang Magnus an Freya's ...
Deadly Weapons [Content label: serious] Grainger, Cecilia 15,826 4 0.25

... dust: jist like fairy dust (Pause) Wi could take a swim? Stew Dimps Cammy and Steve all get up; move as if in slow ...
... Steve all get up; move as if in slow motion; pretending to swim STEW. Follow me guys…gentle mind…easy strokes…fluid; ...
... looking fur the dolphins in the sea…when wi find thum…swim, wull swim wi dolphins in the sea: peace is there (Pause) ...
... fur the dolphins in the sea…when wi find thum…swim, wull swim wi dolphins in the sea: peace is there (Pause) We’ll find ...
Great duck race Hynd, George 732 1 1.37

... and thinks to me, "Whitever can a duck-race be? Would they swim or would they fly? Could ducks race high up in the sky?". ...
Scots version of History of Scots essay Lawson, Robert 3,112 1 0.32

... it, thin at thi watter, an I thought; whit thi hell, I’ll swim it. (Banks, 1986: 167) Thi replacement o <wh-> wi ...
Sweet, Sweet Memories Love, Rowena M 155 1 6.45

... as mermaids’ hair where fish in silver wrappers swim. Sandstone, the seaside rock, is eroded into nut clusters. ...
Women and Poetry 1972-1999: The Contemporary Scene McCulloch, Margery Palmer 7,863 1 0.13

... - mother and daughter - each in their own time long ‘to swim in impossible seas / under the moon’ but are trapped by ...
A few notes on old Kilwinning Town and the Biography of Robert Morrison, Crosshouse. Morrison, Mr Robert 5,211 1 0.19

... our baths better Known by us as dooking and learning to swim and dive from the big stone in the centre of the stream. ...
Sing Us One of the Old Songs - Why Teach Ballads? Petrie, Elaine 3,470 1 0.29

... brother’s suggestion that he cling to his horse who will swim with him to the shore. It is not the curse itself that ...
Classroom Approaches to Teaching the Genres of Writing Philp, Andrew 2,380 1 0.42

... smaller than parents fend for themselves seahorses cant swim very well dorsell propelling pectigall stables and stear ...
Jade Lute Purves, David 7,581 1 0.13

... souch, n, sigh soud, v, should souk, v, suck soum, v, n, swim soup, v, sweep sowp, v, sup spak, v, spoke spaik, n, spar ...
Dipper: 23 - The Red Sea Crossing Reid, John 595 1 1.68

... doos/pigeons bestial/livestock stour/dust soum/swim hunkers/haunches plunkers/truants wud/mad stauve/stave ...
Scottish Parliament: Business Bulletin 137/2000 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 6,068 1 0.16

... a national programme of teaching primary children to swim. S1W-9838 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (27/03/03) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 52,991 1 0.02

... opened his newspaper to read the headline "MSP's dog can't swim". In spite of the occasional negatives, we ought to record ...
Biggam Collection Letter: 08 Trotter, May 455 1 2.20

... traffic scares me - a sign of old age? You are not in the swim if you haven't got a car and a bicycle doesn't have a ...
Halesome Farin' Waddell, Mr John 15,793 1 0.06

... banks, Thae weird-like beasts wi yaird-lang shanks? Jist swim aroon an they'll no heed ye, But play them richt - ye'll ...

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