КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «SKULDUDDERY»
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Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Scrieve, to roll or move or glide " Nacthing but a wee bit skulduddery for easily:
the benefit^ of the kirk treasury."— Scott : i. ' And Scotland has a raucU tongue."
—Burns : Cry and Prayer. Sippet, a tiff, a domestic quarrel between a husband
and ...
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Tales of My Landlord: Second Series : in Four Volumes
... baith waiters, and dfi§'t§ers,liaht;l"c'orn'§ta3* bles, that can find out»
naethingjbut: a-wae-bi: skulduddery for the benefit of the Kirk~t§"éa-' surer. Jock
Porteous, l'hti't?s!;s§ti*FFadll séa'1\li§ pair fallow, was worth a dozen o' them; for
he never ...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq
... there's a dozen o' our city-folk, baith waiters, and officers, and constables, that
can find out naething, but a weebit skulduddery for the benefit of the Kirk-
treasurer. Jock Porteous, that's stiff and stark, puir fallow, was worth a dozen o'
them; ...
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The Heart of Mid-Lothian: A Romance : in Five Volumes
... there's a dozen o' our city-folk, baith waiters, and oflicers, and constables, that
can find out naething, but a weebit skulduddery for the benefit of the Kirk-
treasurer. Jock Porteous, that's still and stark, puir fallow, was worth a dozen o'
them; ...
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Tales Of My Landlord. The Monastery
Skulduddery, fornication. Skyte, contemplible fellow. Slack, an opening between
two hills. Slaistering, doing anything in an awkward and untidy way ,- especially
applied to dabbling in anything moist and unctuous. Slake, smear; splotch ofthat
...
... a wee bit skulduddery for the benefit of the Kirk-treasurer. Jock Porteous, that's
stiff and stark, puir fallow, was worth a dozen o' them ; for he never had ony fears,
or scruples, or doubts, or conscience, about ony thing your honours bade him.
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The Prose Works: Containing Tales of my landlord, The Monastery
Skreigh, screech. Skreigh(skreech) 0' morning, the first dawn. Skulduddery,
fornication. Skyte, contemptiblefcllow. Slack, an opening between two hills.
Slaistering, doing anything in an awkward and untidy way ,~ especially applied to
dabbling ...
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Notices and Anecdotes Illustrative of the Incidents, ...
Skulduddery, Sculduddery, fornication. Skyte, contemptible fellow. Slack, an
opening between two hills ; hollow where no water runs. Slade, slid; slipped
along. Slaistering, doing any thing in an awkward and untidy way; especially
applied to ...
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The Novels, Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley
... God, and the fear o' man, and the fear o' getting a sair ..throat, or sair banes,
there's a dozen o' our city-folk, baith waiters, and officers, and constables, that
can find out naething hut a wee-bit skulduddery for the benefit of the Kirk-
treasurer.
I think now, brother, if you are so much scandalized at a little piece of
skulduddery, which, after all, does nobody any harm, you had better have given it
to me than have flung it into the Sol- way." " I hope, sir," answered Fairford, civilly,
" you are ...
