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  • His face an 'neck were as yellow's mairyguilds, an' yallower; an 'though I've taen washin' soda, an 'pooder, an' the very scrubbin 'brush till't, Sandy's gaen aboot yet juist like's he was noo oot o' the yallow fivver an 'the jaundice thegither.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • I floo to my bed, an 'in aneth the claes, an' lay for a meenit or so expectin 'the cuples wud be doon on the tap o's, an' bruze baith o's to pooder.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • They pit mair pooder i 'quarry than common; and the ston' it split, and roared, and crackit, wi 'a noise like tha crack o' doom.

    Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • There was naething intill 't but a pennyworth o 'blastin' pooder.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • 's like the fowk 'at cairries the mate an' the pooder an 'sic like for them' at does the fechtin '.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

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