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Josephus; but as his heart warmed with the liquor and the good fire, for it was a cold rawish night, -- he returned to Taffy with the pigtail's master; and insisted, that as we had heard about his foreign sweetheart's death, which he appeared to have taken so much to heart, we should just bear with him once more, as he read over what he called her dirgie, which was written on a half-sheet of grey mouldy paper -- as if handed down from the days of the Covenanters.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

Josephus; but as his heart warmed with the liquor and the good fire, for it was a cold rawish night, -- he returned to Taffy with the pigtail's master; and insisted, that as we had heard about his foreign sweetheart's death, which he appeared to have taken so much to heart, we should just bear with him once more, as he read over what he called her dirgie, which was written on a half-sheet of grey mouldy paper -- as if handed down from the days of the Covenanters.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

What the funeral feast, or "dirgie," as it is called, was to the men, the gloomy preparations of the dead body for the coffin were to the women.

The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

What the funeral feast, or “dirgie,” as it is called, was to the men, the gloomy preparations of the dead body for the coffin were to the women.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

The banquet, on the whole, was rather peculiar than enticing; and, for the life of me, I could not divest myself of the idea that the self-same viands had figured, not long before, as funeral refreshments at a dirgie.

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

But not to insist at too great a length on such topics of antiquarian lore, we shall now insert Dr. Pringle's account of the funeral, and which, patly enough, follows our digression concerning the middens and magnificence of Glasgow, as it contains an authentic anecdote of a manufacturer from that city, drinking champaign at the king's dirgie.

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809