varra

McDonald remarked that it was 'a varra fortunate shot, almaist providaintial! '

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

"Ye did weel, Dud," puffed McLeod; "varra weel indeed -- for the coo!"

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

I might be well compared with the last abbot but one, William Thirsk, who resigned his post, forseeing the coming Dissolution, and was therefore called 'a varra fole and a misereble ideote, 'if I attempted in the short space available to give any detailed account of the abbey or its wonderful past.

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

"Naw," said the old man looking up at the stars, "it'll do varra weel, it's a gran 'neet."

The Book of Sun-Dials 1900

But if Henders would clear away the snow from his door he would be "varra obleeged."

Auld Licht Idyls 1898

But if Henders would clear away the snow from his door he would be "varra obleeged."

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

'Weel,' said Mr McIntosh, deliberately, 'rivers are varra like human bein's in the queer twists they take, and the Deil's Lead seems to hae been ain like that.

Madame Midas Fergus Hume 1895

I thowt some sang varra weel, while others did grunt an 'groan,

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

The minister, hearing the loud clapping, but entirely misapprehending its purport, paused in his sermon, and said, "My brethren, it is varra gratifying to a minister of the Word to learn that his remarks meet with the approbation of his hearers, but I'd have you remember that all applause is strictly oot of place in the Hoose of God."

The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

CUMBRIAN WORDS. barn = child; dusta = dost thou; hasta = hast thou. laal = little; leet = alight; girt = great. sista = seëst thou. varra = very. wadsta = wouldst thou. wilta = wilt thou.

A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892