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Perhaps ye may think that I 'm leeing, I' m leeing,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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I'll bring him down to disgrace and shame afore a 'his graund wedding guests -- the fause-hearted, leeing, shamefu' villain!
The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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And the lad Frisbie looked just as if he were leeing.
Self-Raised Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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In the course of our confab, he told me a monstrous heap about them; but, in general, the things were so out of the course of Providence, and so queer and leeing-like, that I, for one, would not believe them without solemn affidavy.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Indeed, I'm leeing there -- I need not call it wakening him -- for Benjie told me, when he was supping his parritch out of his luggie at breakfast-time, that he never winked an eye all night, and that sometimes he heard him greeting to himself in the dark -- such and so powerful is our love of home and the force of natural affection.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Indeed, I'm leeing there -- I need not call it wakening him -- for Benjie told me, when he was supping his parritch out of his luggie at breakfast-time, that he never winked an eye all night, and that sometimes he heard him greeting to himself in the dark -- such and so powerful is our love of home and the force of natural affection.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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In the course of our confab, he told me a monstrous heap about them; but, in general, the things were so out of the course of Providence, and so queer and leeing-like, that I, for one, would not believe them without solemn affidavy.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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` ` Ye're a leeing auld sorrow then, '' replied the fair one; ` ` for
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His autagonifts entertained great hopes of leeing him punilhed: but he had laid his fchemes too well to be under any apprehenfions on that account; and what
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