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“And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?” said the old dame, scoffingly.
The Black Dwarf 2004
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` ` And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie? '' said the old dame, scoffingly.
The Black Dwarf 1898
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'I could have brought off Skywing for myself without such a clamjamfrie after me.'
Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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How can I, when Miss Primrose is going out with the whole clamjamfrie, and all the laddies, into the wet plantations?
The Two Sides of the Shield Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?" said the old dame, scoffingly.
The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801
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The Lost Leader, the difficult second collection and unholy clamjamfrie of polyphonic Scottishness (and rugby players) that took him twenty years to come up with.
planet.journals.ie 2009
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