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Examples

  • His evil spirit is awa i 'puir' Brownie's 'body, bent on

    Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

  • Then breaking into a louder tone: "I wonder what in Heaven's name puir folk are born for at a '.

    The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

  • But ut wull show ye what a puir fellow thot mate was.

    THE SEA FARMER 2010

  • I suspect that 99%+ people do not really give a monkey's where and how 'puir wee Tommy' sourced his shags.

    Response: We were Tommy Sheridan's loyal comrades, not his harem 2011

  • “Tell your mistress the puir wee lass and I are much obliged,” Jamie replied, striding right past her and using his heel to kick the door shut in her astonished face.

    The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010

  • As her silence dragged on, one of the women murmured, “Och, the puir lass is overcome with emotion.”

    The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010

  • She says the puir wee lass can have her bed fer the night.

    The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010

  • “Saul of my pody, put you are wrang there, my friend,” answered Robin, with composure; “it is your fat Englishmen that eat up our Scots cattle, puir things.”

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Now Shanet wad ill like to live in a place where polish, and sheriffs, and bailiffs, and sie thieves and trash of the world, could tak puir shentlemen by the throat, just because they wanted a wheen dollars in the sporran.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer.

    Redgauntlet 2008

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