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“If it was only you, they would likely send two-three lively, brisk young birkies, and 104 if they thought that I was to appear in the employ, I daresay ten or twelve,” said he.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

People of assured self-respect do not call other people "birkies" and "coofs," or "look and laugh at a' that"—at least, not so loudly.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

And, truth to tell, we were somewhat glad of the regardless birkies.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Then bywhiles, atween the spells o' the questions, some o' the young yins fell a-talkin', for even Auld Anton canna haud the tongues o' the young birkies.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"What Sandy?" says I. "No," said ane o' the birkies ahent; "your Sandy—Sandy Bowden."

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.