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  • Reply you shouldn't worry 'bout ur pic. lizzie spiers has much more to worry about, and yet she's even an employee at nymag now. franz

    Home Sweet Home - Anil Dash 2003

  • But the gudewife aye spiers for my muckle meal pock.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • Schermerhorns/Schermerhornes southwest/south-west spiérs/spiers

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • And each for other's weelfare kindly spiers: [322-15]

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • An 'each for other's weelfare kindly spiers: [asks]

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • Ye're juist to stand here a 'the day an' say to ilka body wha spiers for the dog: 'Ay, sir,

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • In fac I was whiles compelled to confess my ignorance, which is no pleesant whan a man wants to stan 'weel wi' a bonny crater that spiers questons.

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

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  • _Silvanes_, should appeare and recite those verses of rebuke, whereas in deede they were but disguised persons vnder the shape of _Satyres_ as who would say, these terrene and base gods being conuersant with mans affaires, and spiers out of all their secret faults: had some great care ouer man, & desired by good admonitions to reforme the euill of their life, and to bring the bad to amendment by those kinde of preachings, whereupon the Poets inuentours of the deuise were called _Satyristes_.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • If naebody spiers after me, thou needna say I was here at a ', thou needna. "

    Winter Evening Tales Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

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