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54 occurrences of swim.

32 documents matching criteria (2.43% of corpus)

246,887 total words in matching documents (5.38% of corpus)

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...


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