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Den he drap right ter de yerth, en I des stop long enough ter put a tin bucket on my haid 'fo' I began ter crawl atter Marse Dan.
1902, Ellen Glasgow, The Battle Ground1 more example
Maybe the great anes o' the yerth get sic a forlethie (surfeit) o' grand'ur 'at they're for nae mair, an' wad perish like the brute beast.
1875, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875.
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