birds

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Ah, man," replied the Scotchman, "dinna let your birses rise at that gate.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

But at least I ken o' ae love ploy that Mistress Lindesay is engaged in, or your birses wadna be so ready to stand on end, my bonny man.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

But when Westerhall saw that the Highland birses were up, and that he would in no wise obey orders, he ordered some of his own scoundrels to do the thing.

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)