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Observe the very nowt an’ sheep, How dowf and dowie now they creep; Nay, even the yirth itsel’ does cry, For Embro’ wells are grutten dry.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

For isna it the bonny day whan the Lord wad hae us sit doon and ait wi himsel, wha made the h'avens and the yirth, and the waters under the yirth that haud it up!

From Salted with Fire by MacDonald, George

Observe the very nowt an' sheep, How dowff an' daviely they creep; Nay, even the yirth itsel' does cry, For E'nburgh wells are grutten dry.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

What in a' the yirth is the doctor gaun to do till us?

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

The flo'ers and the yirth ha'e aye a hamely look to me.'

From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing