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  • And letting on hoon var daft about the warbly sangs from over holmen: High hellskirt saw ladies hensmoker lily-hung pigger: and soay and soan and so firth and so forth in a tone sonora and Oom Bothar below like Bheri – Bheri in his sandy cloak, so umvolosy, as deaf as a yawn, the stult!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • "Fer mesilf it's nivver a bit do Oi care where we go ur pwhat we do, but, as long as we hiv come so fur, an 'Frankie wants to go furder, Oi'd soay go on till he is sick av it an' reddy to turn back."

    Frank Merriwell Down South Burt L. Standish 1905

  • "Thot's a harrud yarn to belave, profissor; but it goes av you soay so," said Barney, thinking it best to smooth over the late unpleasantness.

    Frank Merriwell Down South Burt L. Standish 1905

  • Birds - including passerines, goshawks and gulls - and mammals such as soay sheep, red dear and polar bears, have also trended towards less bulk.

    Forbes.com: News Alex Knapp 2011

  • He also imported soay sheep and 42 New Forest ponies which he crossed with horses to produce the stubby Lundy ponies which now graze the plateau.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • An 'do yez soay her fayther is ould Uric Dugan hissilf? "

    Frank Merriwell's Bravery Burt L. Standish 1905

  • An 'th' professor will soay it wur judgment on us fer runnin 'away. "

    Frank Merriwell's Bravery Burt L. Standish 1905

  • "Oh, soay! did ye iver think ye'd loike to be alone wid a pretty swate girrul, profissor?

    Frank Merriwell Down South Burt L. Standish 1905

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