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Examples
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Seem to me one who airns his money by hard work. '
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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"Waal, he orter be; some boys o 'twelve airns their own livin', don't ye know?"
Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry
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He works hard all day, and he airns his money; and any man hath
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Page 234 and day, and gitting none of the benefit of all that Bostwick airns or steals.
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-- By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murders's banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi 'his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi blude red-rusted; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter
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-- By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murders's banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi 'his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi blude red-rusted; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter
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-- By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murders's banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi 'his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi blude red-rusted; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter
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-- By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murders's banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi 'his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi blude red-rusted; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter
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He works hard all day, and he airns his money; and any man hath a right to wag his tongue of night-time, when his arms and his legs have been wagging all day.”
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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There, lass -- the airns are aff, and if you'll o'ny put your kershief aroun 'your bonnie wrists they'll sune be weel eneugh. "
Self-Raised Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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