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brawly .
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Examples
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The Qwein of Fearrie is brawlie clothed in whyt linens, and in whyt and browne cloathes, &c.
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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Wherever we stopped, how brawlie he suited himsell to everybody!
Paras. 25-49 1909
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Whenever we stopped, how brawlie he suited himsel 'to everybody!
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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But Tam kent what was what fu 'brawlie: [full well]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Wherever we stopped, how brawlie he suited himsel 'to everybody!
Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878
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Wherever we stopped, how brawlie he suited himsel 'to everybody!
Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861
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` ` O, brawlie did I ken Steenie, puir fallow, '' replied the prisoner; --- ` ` but I canna condeshend on ony particular time I have seen him lately. ''
The Antiquary 1845
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Wherever we stopped, how brawlie he suited himsel 'to everybody!
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824
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Wherever we stopped how brawlie he suited himsel 'to everybody!
Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801
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“O, brawlie did I ken Steenie, puir fallow,” replied the prisoner; — “but I canna condeshend on ony particular time I have seen him lately.”
The Antiquary 1584
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