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Sentence Examples
| I just wanted to have, well, a chat, man to man, woman to woman, bairn to bairn as I'm sure they put it doon the Wallygate. |
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| Will this changing pattern of immigration in time change Scottish perceptions as to just who is and who isn't a bairn of Jock Tamson? |
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| Stunned by what I saw as control-freakery and barbarism I resolved to put my baby to my breast when she was hungry, and there she would fall into deep slumber, like a good little hunter-gatherer bairn. |
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| Does that mean I'm not allowed here to pick my bairn up? |
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| Never mind how Steve Bruce looks now, he was as skinny as a spelk when he was a bairn. |
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| Nee thrill at aal like ritin aye, bairn, clarts, spuggy, hadaway and nowt. |
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| I've seen many a poor bairn going to school, with patches sown on their britches. |
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| Sae Beatrice wis ready whan she wis cried on in the middle o the nicht tae halp the howdie. It wis a saicont bairn, an Derriakin wis muckle-boukit, sae the birth gaed quick. |
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| On the tenth month the woman does not escape with her life if the bairn is not born, since it turns in the belly to a deadly disorder, and oftenest on Tuesnight. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Gie a bairn his will, and a whelp its fill, and nane o' them will e'er do weel. |
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| The Baron was fairly satisfied, and muttered that if the bairn was fit only for a shaveling, it might be all right. |
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| To think of me telling ye about the leddy, and you kenning a the time wha the bairn was. |
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| He raised his heid when he heard me tellin' the bairn no to tear my wrapper. |
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| He was in a lang time, but I never kent what he did, for the bairn juist aye greets when I speir at her. |
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| Man, I fully meant to turn the bairn, but she ran by at sic a steek 'at there was nae stoppin' her. |
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| I speired at 'im what he meant by terrifyin' a bairn, but he didna say naething. |
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| Too awful it is for an aged man to bide and bear, that his bairn so young rides on the gallows. |
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| The bairn was never found though, but it seems like yestreen. |
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| But, at any rate, she was his wife, and the bairn would be his bairn. |
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| You forget I was but a bairn when we romped in the hay-dash. |
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| The bairn joined in her tears till M'Iver took it in his arms. |
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| Five pounds of the drug was discovered when James Fair bairn was searched during his arrest for an unrelated matter on Friday. |
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| Else there wadna hae been sic a sad welcome for her bonnie bairn. |
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| It was a clear foul but whistler Craig Thomson immediately flashed a red card at the young Bairn and that looked harsh. |
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