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  • Jodi: He lies – he embodies the best advice – patience, understanding, time, space and the occasional tantie to bring the most absorbed writer back down to earth.

    Reality Bites… but Not Too Hard « Write Anything 2009

  • Well, after dinner, while Miss Matilda was singing "Die tantie," or "Dip your chair," or some of them sellabrated Italyian hairs (when she began this squall, hang me if she'd ever stop), my lord gets hold of Lady

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • (with "try'd the rantie-tantie O" in 1.4) was in the Gribbel collection, "a set of collector's notes" as Kinsley says, suggesting that they are traditional, altered slightly "to tailor the song for the air"; while the MMC extra stanzas are probably folk bawdry, though obviously Burns may have done something with them.

    Hap and Rowe 1847

  • Well, after dinner, while Miss Matilda was singing “Die tantie,” or “Dip your chair,” or some of them sellabrated Italyian hairs (when she began this squall, hang me if she’d ever stop), my lord gets hold of Lady Griffin again, and gradgaly begins to talk to her in a very different strane.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

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