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Pls tew be has teh partying at yoor regyooler tyme, adn ai weel be heer in speerit & coms tew reeded tumarow!
Cat-dar - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Bezides, der arr noe cheezburgers, onli chikin blud fore da speerit of Basement Cat hu towurs ova his fuud.
Lestat? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Wi 'a' his foiterin 'weys, there's a winderfu' speerit o 'independence aboot Sandy, d'ye ken?
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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The fust thing to do is to break that 'igh speerit of his, and then we'll set to work to train him to show off with the leopards.
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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In the sense that ye appear to desire your cousin to hae nerrves, I dinna ken mysel 'what use they wad be to a young leddie wi' a speerit such as she has.
Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days Anna W. Ford Piper
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'Hooisht! lass, thaa mornd try to speerit through th' clouds that are raand abaat His throne.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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The man said in a sort of transport, 'She's a perfect meeracle; flees about like a speerit, and never gangs wrang; wears, but never grups, and beats a' oor dowgs.
The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923
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Whilst there, his naturally adventurous speerit brocht him into contact wi '
Tam o' the Scoots Edgar Wallace 1903
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"A'm no 'in the recht speerit -- Hoo mony did we lose?"
Tam o' the Scoots Edgar Wallace 1903
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"She went like a speerit," said the good woman, staring out into the blackness in amazement.
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902
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