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Examples
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Didna ye tell me a 'aboot yer gran' freen 'and hoo, and hoo lang ye had loed him? and didna that mak Francie my business as weel's yer ain?
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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"freen" Ossian, with the moon shining through him, within that very hour.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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But amo 'freen's, that cudna be; an' 'deed, Mr. Warlock, gien a body wad be captious, michtna he say it wad hae been mair freen'ly to beg aff? "
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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One year when I was in high school I made a “gingerbread house” out of peak freen cookies instead of gingerbread.
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"It's mair nor ever happened in yon kirk o 'yours; an' it's mair nor could happen to the Pope o 'Rome, wha's a true freen o' yours, I'm jalousin '," snorted my beadle back triumphantly; for William was uncharitable, and despaired of all ritualists, the iron of covenanting protest running hot within his blood.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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'I'll no' deny, 'he went on in an explanatory tone,' that I tak ma mornin ', an' maybe a nip at noon; an 'a wee drap aifter wark in the evenin', an 'whiles a sip o' toddy wi 'a freen thae cauld nichts.
Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898
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"Mony's the time I've thocht upon you and your freen, and blythe am I to see in your braws," she cried.
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When we're gaun up the hill o 'fortune may we ne'er meet a freen' coming doun.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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"The very same," says I. "Mony's the time I've thocht upon you and your freen, and blythe am I to see in your braws," [20] she cried.
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I flang aff my butes to rin efter a freen ', an' that's hoo ye didna hear me come up.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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