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Miss Wordsworth's arm was in mine, and she was expressing some fears that the splendid stranger might prove ominous, when I, by ill luck, blundered out the following remark, thinking that I was saying a good thing: -- 'Hout, me'em! it is neither mair nor less than joost a treeumphal airch, raised in honour of the meeting of the poets.'
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832. Various
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Na, na, "said Jock with a canty kind of content in his voice," they may luik a lang while or they wad think o 'luikin' for him atween the foundation an 'the spring o' the airch.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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Has the fit o 'Iris ca'd a hole i' the airch o '' t?
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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