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Examples

  • 'They sellt him to the Ishmeleets for siller, as Judas did him.'

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • Troth! he wad whiles come aboot the place efter her, whaur I wad be at my wark, as it micht be the day, cursin 'an' sweirin 'as gien he had sellt his sowl to a' the deevils thegither, an 'sae micht tak his wull o' onything he cud get his tongue roon '!

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

  • Some said he had sellt himsel 'to the deevil, but I'm thinkin' that wasna necessar '.

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

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