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Examples
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Cheer'd onward by the love that lichts my nameless lassie's e'e.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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I lookit, oot there on the Embankment, wi 'the lichts shinin' doon on me and a ', and me dancin' aroond in a fever o 'impatience to be off!
Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910
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Ye mind the auld gasoliery i 'the dinin'-room had twa lichts?
A Window in Thrums 1898
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"No but what they micht be blue in some lichts," Nanny added, out of respect to the minister.
The Little Minister 1898
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Even at nichts, when they couldna sleep wi 'the soond, I've kent them rise in a body an' gang all ower the house wi 'lichts.
A Window in Thrums 1898
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-- O Father o 'lichts! gar him tak the hump wi' him.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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"Father o 'lichts!" rang the cry again, and louder than before.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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He spoke but one word -- when she took him by the hand to lead him to the room where her cousin used to sleep: "Father o 'lichts!" he said, and no more.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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Syne, Curly, ye fire yer gun, and burn the blue lichts o 'the tap o' the hoose; and gin I see or hear the signal,
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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There was bonny colours, an 'bonny lichts, an' a bonny grit star hingin 'ower 't a', but it was nane o 'a' thae things; it was something deeper nor a ', an' heicher nor a '!
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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