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The king, incontinent, send his traist servandis in France and Flanderis, and brocht richt crafty masonis to big this abbay; syne dedicat it in the honour of this haly croce.
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I got this via Mark Liberman at Language Log, who got it from abnu at Wordlab, and they both quote this wonderful paragraph from Alexander Fenton's "Craiters: 'I cannot get enough of it'," which I can't resist either:Faar I wis brocht up, e only seabirds we'd see wis e seamaas.
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His lady's brocht forth a bonnie son as sung by Ray Fisher
Willie's Lady 2 1999
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-- The eagle and the stream are silent, and the heavens and the earth are brocht close thegither by that triumphin 'psalm.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various
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The race o 'them never brocht ocht in my generation to puir Scotland worth a bodle, unless it micht be a new fricassee to fyle a stamach wi'.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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"Are ye sure, sir, that ye brocht them hame?" said the waiter, an acute lad, who had served his apprenticeship at a commercial tavern in the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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He was that big he wadna gang into the bag they had wi 'them; so they cuttit him in twa halves; and the tae half they brocht to the station here to gang by rail to Embro'.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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"An ', as the auld sayin' is, gin ye dinna like what's set doon, juist tak 'what ye brocht wi' ye," says Mistress Winton, an 'set's a' to the lauchin '.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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At last a messenger brocht tidings o 'a great battle.
Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke
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Kennin 'thrift in the morn brocht pleasure at e'en.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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