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a- +‎ bleeze

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  • Weel! in to the water we behoved a 'to splash, heels ower head, sit or fa' -- ae horse driving on anither, as is the way of brute beasts, and riders that hae as little sense; the very bushes on the ither side were ableeze wi 'the flashes of the Whig guns; and my horse had just taen the grund, when a blackavised westland carle -- I wad mind the face o' him a hundred years yet -- an ee like a wild falcon's, and a beard as broad as my shovel -- clapped the end o 'his lang black gun within a quarter's length of my lug!

    The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

  • "A canny Merlot ableeze wi succulent blackcurrants an blueberries.

    [Spittoon] Full Postings 2009

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