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Page 54
... look un- concerned on a large tavern - bill [ he cannot have meant any such bill of his own , for he certainly did not have the money to pay any large tavern - bills ] , and mix without fear in a drunken squabble , yet I went on with a ...
... look un- concerned on a large tavern - bill [ he cannot have meant any such bill of his own , for he certainly did not have the money to pay any large tavern - bills ] , and mix without fear in a drunken squabble , yet I went on with a ...
Page 141
... look baith blyth and bauld , Nor fley'd wi ' a ' the poortith o ' the plain ; Begin , my Muse , and chant in hamely ... looks sae cosh and clean ; For cleanly house looes he , tho ' e'er sae mean . Weelkens the gudewife that the pleughs ...
... look baith blyth and bauld , Nor fley'd wi ' a ' the poortith o ' the plain ; Begin , my Muse , and chant in hamely ... looks sae cosh and clean ; For cleanly house looes he , tho ' e'er sae mean . Weelkens the gudewife that the pleughs ...
Page 145
... look amaist as weel's the new ; The Father mixes a ' wi ' admonition due . Terms like ' social hours ' hardly sort well with such straightforward expressions as ' each tells the uncos that he sees or hears ' , while in the last four ...
... look amaist as weel's the new ; The Father mixes a ' wi ' admonition due . Terms like ' social hours ' hardly sort well with such straightforward expressions as ' each tells the uncos that he sees or hears ' , while in the last four ...
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