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  • "I think," says I, "yon'll be Finlay Stuart's Uist powny; there's none here has the silver mane and tail ...."

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • Wull being a man of orderly habits, went early to bed; and next morning, when the business of the farm called him and Geordy together, says Wull to Geordy, "Ye was unco late in coming hame last night; aw salt the powny."

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various

  • "You d-- d idiot, ye did na 'gie away the powny without getting the siller for't; wha was he?"

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various

  • ‘I dare say no, ’ said the precentor; ‘for Miss Bertram comes on the white powny ilka day to the kirk—and a constant kirk-keeper she is—and it’s a pleasure to hear her singing the psalms, winsome young thing.

    Chapter XI 1917

  • I’ll take out a ticket for ye in the fly to Jethart—Od, but ye maun take a powny after that o’er the Limestane-rig—deil a wheeled carriage ever gaed into Liddesdale.

    Chapter XXXVIII 1917

  • Ay, the day afore yesterday me an 'the powny was clatterin' by Zoar, when there was Jamie standin 'in his identical place.

    A Window in Thrums 1898

  • But here we are nearer to Heugh-foot than to your house by twa mile, --- hadna ye better e'en gae hame wi 'me, and we'll send the callant on the powny to tell them that you are wi' us, though I believe there's naebody at hame to wait for you but the servants and the cat. ''

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • The name seems to be taken from the dish of brose with which he who won the race was occasionally regaled. of the Preakin tower --- I wad send the sled for ye wi 'a canny powny.' '

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • But she didnae speak plain, ye maun understand; but yam-yammered, like a powny wi 'the bit in its moo.

    Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • "Not her," said May Girmory, "she has a riding skirt, the way folk has them made in London, and gangs by at a hand-gallop, a different powny every time, and Lord, she doesna spare them!"

    Patsy 1887

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