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Some ca '[321-10] the pleugh, some herd, some tentie [321-11] rin
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Some ca '[7] the pleugh, some herd, some tentie [8] rin
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Wi 'tentie care I'll flit thy tether [attentive, change]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Some ca 'the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin [drive, heedful run]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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"Nor pass the tentie curious lad, Who o'er the ingle hangs his head, And begs of neighbours books to read; For hence arise Thy country's sons, who far are spread, Baith bold and wise."
The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867
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Some ca '[18] the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin 30
Selections from Five English Poets Thomas Gray 1743
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Some tentie rin a cannie errand to a neebor town, some, heedful, run on a quiet errand to a neighboring town.
Selections from Five English Poets Thomas Gray 1743
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Some ca 'thepleugh, fome herd, fome tentie rin Acannie errand to a neebor town:
Roach's Beauties: Of the Modern Poets of Great Britain Carefully Selected ... John Roach, W. G. 1794
bilby commented on the word tentie
Scots - cautious.
August 2, 2008