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Examples
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“Art thou, too, infected with the spirit of the times?” said the Sub – Prior; “thou wert wont to be ready and serviceable, and art now as restive as any wild jack-man or stubborn heretic of them all.”
The Monastery 2008
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Sub-Prior; "thou wert wont to be ready and serviceable, and art now as restive as any wild jack-man or stubborn heretic of them all."
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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“So, our lady is dead, Dame Glendinning?” said the jack-man; “my master has sent you even now a fat bullock for her mart — it may serve for her funeral.
The Monastery 2008
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Christie! — — it is the Sub – Prior — O reverend sir, it is Christie of the Clinthill, the laird’s chief jack-man; ye know that little havings can be expected from the like o’ them.”
The Monastery 2008
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"So, our lady is dead, Dame Glendinning?" said the jack-man; "my master has sent you even now a fat bullock for her mart -- it may serve for her funeral.
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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