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  • Perth bell, ran before Gowrie House ‘with ane sword, and, entering to the yearde, saw George Craiggingilt with ane twa-handit sword and utheris nychtbouris; at quilk time James Boig cryit ower ane wynds, “Awa hame! ye will all be hangit”’ — a piece of advice which William took, and immediately ‘depairtit.’

    Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

  • On [e] caus [e] of my present writing is ryght honorable humblie to requyr you to Deliuer this other lettre enclosed to the quenes grace quilk conteaneht in few and sempill wordes my confession what I think of her authoritie, how far it is Just, and what may make it odious in goddis presence.

    The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878

  • On [e] caus [e] of my present writing is ryght honorable humblie to requyr you to Deliuer this other lettre enclosed to the quenes grace quilk conteaneht in few and sempill wordes my confession what I think of her authoritie, how far it is Just, and what may make it odious in goddis presence.

    The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874

  • Craiggingilt with ane twa-handit sword and utheris nychtbouris; at quilk time James Boig cryit ower ane wynds, "Awa hame! ye will all be hangit"'-- a piece of advice which William took, and immediately

    Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • With lokker [143] hair, quilk ouer his schulderis lay.

    Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869

  • It li a qttotation re - vithm hooks are Mr WhttafcerS fpcfling the funpus cafkct: "quilk explanations; and liis uncli Is nioli

    The Edinburgh magazine, or Literary miscellany 1787

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