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Examples
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Mysie Meldrum noticed me, an 'she cam' rinnin 'to speer what was ado.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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I heard the bell gang for men three tows a 'rinnin', an 'I see a lot o' men comin 'up the brae.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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Then he staned the cats that cam 'rinnin' to beg for milk an 'cheese -- cats that never war clodded afore.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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I saw her mysel 'rinnin' aboot the toon, frae ane till anither, wi 'her lang hair doon the lang back o' her, an 'fleein' i 'the win', like a body dementit.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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(commotion), rinnin 'here an' rinnin 'there, and the maist feck o' them dinna ken whar they're gaein.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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a 'the same -- rinnin' here an 'rinnin' there, cairryin 'boxes till an' frae the smacks, an 'doin' a'thing whether they bade me or no.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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Similarly, the elder son, Alec's uncontrollable murderous rages are explained away by his being a man; and the fact that his sister, Jenny, is a kept woman — well, that is forgiven because sex is woman's only way out, and the wages of her sin will get her parents a new flat with "hot rinnin water an a park forbye!"
'Men Should Weep' marvels Paul Levy 2010
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"I thought I sid him as I came here, walkin 'beside me among the trees; but I consait it was only the trees themsels that lukt like rinnin' one behind another, as I walked on."
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"There's a rinnin brook thar -- you were at this side, and they at that; did they try to mak ye cross over?"
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"There's a rinnin brook thar -- you were at this side, and they at that; did they try to mak ye cross over?"
fbharjo commented on the word rinnin
a smile - grinning
December 15, 2008