speered

"speered" of the other, "Did ye ken ane Weelum Kerr here aboot?"

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria William Westgarth 1852

Common afore ane o 'the laddies grippit him by the tails, an' speered whaur he was fleein 'till.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

The beathel cam 'doon afore he gaed hame, an' speered what i 'the world had happened.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Dauvid appeared to tak 'the whole thing as a maitter o' coorse, an 'when I speered if this was juist their uswal, "Tuts ay," says he, "it's juist the loons in the exoobrians o' their speerits, d'ye know, d'ye see. "

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Mester Blair didna appear to understand Sandy, an 'he speered, "Do you get cash again' Billy Lowden; or hoo d'ye get peyment? "

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

He gaed on like this for the feck o 'the efternune, an' even in the middle o 'his tea, when I speered if it was het eneuch, he lookit at me akinda ravelled like, and says, "Although ye was startin' for that star the day you was born, stride-legs on a cannon ball, ye wudna be there till ye was mair than ninety 'ear auld. "

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

And I wasna far wrang, for the stranger, takin 'out a pound frae his spleuchan, handed it ower to the monkey, and speered at him, in his droll norlan deealect, if he could change a note.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various

I tried the feed, speered into the stoke-hole, thumbed all bearin's, spat on the thrust for luck, gied 'em my blessin ', an' took Kinloch's socks before I went up to the bridge again.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

By an 'by they got used wi' it, and even speered at her to ken what was wrang; but frae that day forth she couldnae speak like a Christian woman, but slavered and played click wi 'her teeth like a pair o' shears; and frae that day forth the name o 'God cam' never on her lips.

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

I'd ha 'speered frae him whether it wouldna ease him to speak wi' the holy Donald McSnaw, but it might ha 'been a mistake, and the general wasna a man that you'd care tae mak' a mistake wi '.

The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894