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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Klinkenborg at Fifty-Five 2007

Verlyn Klinkenborg is a poet with a subject today that transcends our peerie focus on little crimes and their criminals.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Klinkenborg at Fifty-Five 2007

At which I broke through my rule never to lift my fist to the bairn, and gave him such a yerk in the cheek with the loof of my hand, as made, I am sure, his lugs ring, and sent him dozing to the door like a peerie.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

An 'dee wi' futh of meat and drink [Excess] 'It's weel enough a peerie while

Lady Odivere (Grey Silkie 3) 1898

If I see the sons and daughters of my friends grown old, I also see the grandchildren spinning the peerie and hunkering at

A Window in Thrums 1898

Yea, yea! puir Tammy and his pate-keschie does mair for ill-luckit, wandering sea-folk than does the muckle kirk and the peerie [3] queen pit together.

Viking Boys Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby 1891

We got on fine a while, till Airchie broke my peerie an 'pooched the string.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

I saw Magneezhy clap his hand to his brow, wheel round like a peerie, or a sheep seized with the sturdie, and then play flap down on his broadside, breaking the necks of half-a-dozen cabbage-stocks -- three of which were afterwards clean lost, as we could not put them all into the pot at one time.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

I saw Magneezhy clap his hand to his brow, wheel round like a peerie, or a sheep seized with the sturdie, and then play flap down on his broadside, breaking the necks of half-a-dozen cabbage-stocks -- three of which were afterwards clean lost, as we could not put them all into the pot at one time.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Dog on it, it was more than I could thole, and I saw that his mother had spoiled him; so, though I aye liked to give him wholesome reproof rather than lift my fist, I broke through this rule in a couple of hurries, and gave him such a yerk in the cheek with the loof of my hand, as made, I am sure, his lugs ring, and sent him dozing to the door like a peerie.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824