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- noun Plural form of
wark .
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Examples
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For tha vines are speakin' words of a new episode in tha warks!
Archive 2008-05-01 Felbrigg 2008
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For tha vines are speakin' words of a new episode in tha warks!
Update Felbrigg 2008
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Now full to the thropple wi 'heed warks an heart aches
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The noises include a high frequency, metallic, nasal 'ching' noise, humming, bill-clicking, 'scrarking' (scrarking is simply what it sounds like - the bird goes 'scrark' a lot), ` screech-crowing ', pig-like grunts and squeals, duck-like ` warks' and donkey-like braying.
Last Chance to See Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1990
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"I gie back more than I hae taken, an 'I rest on Christ's smercy;" an 'then shall ye be safe an' happy if ye fail na 'to be constant in gude warks.'
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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Whereas, ye ken ye told the people that ef they repented o 'their sins and believed in Christ and gave the evidence o' gude warks they might settle right doon, and ken they'd be saved, anyhow.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage
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I never saw him get up yet but he gae a'body mair than their sairin 'o' sooage, an 'main-drains, an' gas-warks, an 'so on afore he feenisht.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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The old man listened, then, "They are strange warks, women!" he said, and almost immediately went on to speak of other things.
Foes Mary Johnston 1903
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'' Deed no, mem, 'replied Archie, obstinately, as he arose from his seat;' 'tis verra likely a man fra the warks saying he wants to go.
Madame Midas Fergus Hume 1895
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For God the Father beholding us, in the body of his Sonne Christ Jesus, acceptis our imperfite obedience, as it were perfite, [723] and covers our warks, quhilk ar defyled with mony spots, [724] with the justice of his Sonne.
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