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  • He thocht aiblins if the bank manager saw it he micht "pairt" -- but deevil

    Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

  • If I read the Bible right I think it says that all Liares is to have there pairt in the Lake that Burns with Fire and Brimstone but I suppose they find it a Loquarative trade for I belive that Hogg and Walter Scott has got more money for Lieing than old Boston and the Erskins got for all the Sermons ever they Wrote ....

    The Lamp in the Mausoleum Lurie, Alison 2006

  • As pairt by pairt we closed by guess, the swan-necked valve.

    Swan Necked Valve 1999

  • But they may achieve some success before the main pairt of our forces can get to grips with them.

    England Under Hitler Clarke, Comer 1961

  • Hose to his credit, though for my pairt they'd been far better to ha'e presented it to him, than to gi'e him it that way.

    The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

  • Dan is no model to follow, "says he;" forbye, your head is not so strong, if that be any excuse for drink and devilry on his pairt.

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • In this place I'm sentinel, spy, and garrison; it wad ill become the officer in command to let me be doin 'my wark withoot some clew to the maist important pairt o't.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • "Ye maun bear in mind," he said, "that ye're nae mair twa, but ae flesh; an 'ye'll bide wi' ane anither till deith shall ye pairt -- that is, gin ye're spared."

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • A good pairt of our baggage and the provisions we had, were distroyed by our own people who went of from our left.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • It's business wi 'them, but it wad be dishonest on oor pairt.

    The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

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