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And Sarah Palin's running mate sputtered and made a series of really weird girns, suggesting that he was about to be overcome by an onset of Torrette's.

Obama Hits McCain, Palin For Ugly Tone At Rallies 2009

"It greets a 'winter and girns a' summer," as one of Dr John

Lessons on Soil E. J. Russell

For he sits an 'he girns, an' ca's the creeshie pirn,

I Wadna Hae a Baker 1948

A var. on the 3rd line: For he sits on his lume, an 'he girns at the mune.

I Wadna Hae a Baker 1948

The Divil always girns at the sight of the Bible. "

Stories of Childhood Various 1885

The Divil always girns at the sight of the Bible. "

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

Hit and me jist stan's an 'girns at ane anither. "

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

Was there ever anything better or so good, said of a stiff clay, than that it “girns

Spare Hours John Brown 1846

Dalgetty curses every time it’s spoken about, and says, “it greets a’ winter, and girns a’ simmer.”

Spare Hours John Brown 1846