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Examples
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Good for McCain for pushing his inexperienced selt up against a wall!
McCain says Obama's Iraq trip would convince him of success 2008
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What Lithuanian parliament has done I consider as an act of a selt-esteem.
In Lithuania, Better Hide That Hammer and Sickle - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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What Lithuanian parliament has done I consider as an act of a selt-esteem.
In Lithuania, Better Hide That Hammer and Sickle - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Anya, after the Irishers, to convert me into a selt (but first I must proxy babetise my old antenaughties), when, as Sigismond Stol-terforth, with Rabbin Robroost for my auspicer and Leecher
Finnegans Wake 2006
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But hey, it does beats getting low-selt esteem or depression.
just twenty minutes of contradiction. freakymandy 2004
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Sir Walter Scott, in printing ‘sleete’ in 1.3, said: ‘The word _sleet_, in the chorus, [1] seems to be corrupted from _selt_, or salt; a quantity of which, in compliance with a popular superstition, is frequently placed on the breast of a corpse.’
Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick
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Oh, no, I can stand a lot; but you'll find oot that Mag Robertson hasna selt her a 'tae you, without driving a hard bargain afore she lets you alone.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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Wull having mentioned the price -- "My faith," says Geordy, "ye hae selt it weel."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various
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The word sleet, in the chorus, seems to be corrupted from selt or salt; a quantity of which, in compliance with a popular superstition, is frequently placed on the breast of a corpse.
Purgatory Mrs. James Sadlier 1861
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Listening to songs like Watch This by Slash from his recent selt-titled album revealed that the iAudio E2 sounded crispy rich and detailed for genre like Rock with no compromise on the low end either.
PC Advisor News 2010
bilby commented on the word selt
Scots - past tense of the verb 'to sell', ie. sold.
December 26, 2007