scaret

Then, all the way home, I was scaret when I was ridin 'alone, an' still more scaret when I heard anybody comin 'after me.

Coupon bonds, and other stories 1873

"I'm no easy scaret, but that's fearfu 'to think o'!"

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

Dinna luik sae scaret like, sir; we may be in time yet er 'the warst come to the warst, though it's some ill to say what may be the warst in sic an ill coopered kin' o 'affair!

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

The lad was scaret at that, as weel he micht, an 'takin' aff 's bannet, he lowtit laich, an 'left her.

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

"A man would think," observed Ferring, "that Ducklow had some o 'them bonds on his hands, and got scaret, he took such a sudden start.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

"Na, na," he cried, "I'll no 'hae my dog scaret wi' bogles, and running down Auld Nick as if he were a hare.

The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

"A man would think," observed Ferring, "that Ducklow had some o 'them bonds on his hands, and got scaret, he took such a sudden start.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Various 1887

“A man would think,” observed Ferring, “that Ducklow had some o 'them bonds on his hands, and got scaret, he took such a sudden start.

Coupon bonds, and other stories 1873

Efter the experrience I had as a yoong lass, awa 'doon in Englan' yon'er, at a place my auntie got me intil -- for she kenned a heap o 'gran' fowk throuw bein 'hersel' sae near conneckit wi 'them as hoosekeeper i' the castel here -- efter that, I'm sayin, 'I wadna need to be that easy scaret? "

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864