sauls

"Ef anywan who's christened wed change sauls weth me," said the seal,

Drolls From Shadowland

North of England boys used to talk of "spitting their sauls"

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

And I wad see thae folly-crammed and sinfu 'sauls, that had let him in and had his bite, set for shame and shawing and warning and example before the congregation, and I wad say to the minister,' Lift voice against them and spare not! '

Foes Mary Johnston 1903

Mony a time I have askit mysel 'why witches and warlocks should sell their sauls (whilk are their maist dear possessions) and be auld, duddy, wrunkl't wives or auld, feckless, doddered men; and then I mind upon Tod Lapraik dancing a' the hours by his lane in the black glory of his heart.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Mony a time I have askit mysel 'why witches and warlocks should sell their sauls (whilk are their maist dear possessions) and be auld, duddy, wrunkl't wives or auld, feckless, doddered men; and then I mind upon Tod Lapraik dancing a' the hours by his lane in the black glory of his heart.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Mony a time I have askit mysel ', why witches and warlocks should sell their sauls (whilk are their maist dear possessions) and be auld, duddy, wrunkl't wives or auld, feckless, doddered men; and then I mind upon Tod Lapraik dancing

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Dei, hoc est, ex sacrae scripturae oraculo satisfacturos; aut quod secus a nobis dictum all sectis of heresie and all teachers of erronious doctrine: and that with all humilitie we imbrace the purity of Christs Gospell, quhilk is the onelie fude of our sauls, and therefoir sa precious unto us, that we ar determined to suffer the extremest of wardlie daunger, rather than that we will suffer our selves to be defraudit of the sam.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889