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Examples
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‘Broken limbs I wish,’ answered the beldam, ‘that my hinnie had broken the best bane in his body, before he had broken his fiddle, that was the best blood in Scotland — it was a Cremony, for aught that I ken.’
Redgauntlet 2008
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‘I daurna I daurna,’ said the poor woman, ‘they would murder me and my hinnie Willie baith, and they have misguided us aneugh already; — but if there is anything worldly I could do for your honour, leave out loosing ye?’
Redgauntlet 2008
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‘And ye ken mickle less of my hinnie, sir,’ replied Maggie,
Redgauntlet 2008
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“And where did he change his clothes again, hinnie?” said Sharpitlaw, in his most conciliatory manner.
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“Non-conformity, hinnie,” sighed Mause, “is the name that thae warldly men gie us.”
Old Mortality 2004
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“Of my persuasion, hinnie!” said the too-enlightened Mause;
Old Mortality 2004
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The mules prance and hinnie; the horses neigh and bound over the grass; but the long boughs bend without breaking: and, acting as elastic springs, give full play to the affrighted creatures.
The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850
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By the well o 'the woods o' Wearie O! Oh, gi'e me my castock, my hinnie, my heart,
Paddo's Song 1828
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By the well o 'the woods o' Wearie O! Oh, gi'e me my kail, my hinnie, my heart,
Paddo's Song 1828
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` ` And where did he change his clothes again, hinnie? '' said
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