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Gin there be a God to ca' oor Father in heaven, I'm no thinkin' that he wad to sae mony bonny tunes pit a scraich for the hinder end.
From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George
I gaed yae skelloch as I fell, but, gracious me," said Birsay, waving his hands, "that was as naething to the scraich that the fowk aboot the fire gied.
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)
At the end of the village "she begun to scraich, yer Anner, wid that shtrength you'd think she'd shplit her troat."
From Irish Wonders by McAnally, D. R. (David Russell)
And she never gae a scraich in her life 'cep' whan she was han'let in a mainner unbecomin'.
From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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