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  • Evin swa ye have perswaded thame to bigge to yow great Hospitalis, and manteyne yow thairin be thair purs, quhilk onlie perteinis now to us be all law, as biggit and dottat to the pure, of whois number ye are not, nor can be repute, nether be the law of God, nor yit be na uther law proceiding of nature, reasoun, or civile policie.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • He had 'atteined to grait ritches, conquesit a prettie room within a lig to Geneva, and biggit thairon a trim house called "The Vilet."'

    Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

  • The Bower is biggit on the verra march line, 'she explained,' an 'the ben is ower on the Scots side whaur we intercommune,' and Meg, with her arms akimbo and her mouth on the grin, contemplated her enemy in scornful triumph.

    Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

  • Winton House or Castle, "biggit, with the yard and garding thereof," by

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Ye see, they say Dunbog is nae mair a gentleman than the blunker that’s biggit the bonnie house down in the howm.

    Chapter III 1917

  • But I can do what good women canna and daurna do—I can do what would freeze the blood o’ them that is bred in biggit wa’s for naething but to bind bairns’ heads, and to hap them in the cradle.

    Chapter XLVII 1917

  • Ye see, sir, though the hoose be fun't upo 'a rock, it's maist biggit o' fells, an 'the foundation's a' I luik even to see o ''t again.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • Haud ye by that, Ma'colm, an 'dinna ye rist till ye ha'e biggit a harbour to the men an' women o 'Scaurnose.

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

  • His horse war aye swifter, an 'his kye aye better milkers nor ither fowk's; there war nae deer sae big nor had sic muckle horns as the reid deer on his heelan' hills; nae gillies sae strang's his gillies; and nae castles sae weel biggit or sae auld as his!

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • Isna his hoose a lee? isna it biggit upo the san '?

    Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

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