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• John Jamieson quotes an example : " Puir lad!
• It's juist for puir toon bodies that are aye ailin'an'deein'. " Fright and resentment lent the silent old man an astonishing eloquence for the moment . " Ye wadna gang to the infairmary yer ainsel', an'tak'charity . ""
• He is just able to escape her by crossing the bridge ( over a running stream ), narrowly avoiding her attack as she is only able to grab the horse's tail which comes away in her hands : " The carlin caught her by the rump and left puir Meg wi'scarce a stump ."
• King James was " movit with the ernest zeill and grite affection our lovit Johnne schaw of grenok hes ay had to goddis glorie and propagatioun of the trew religioun ", and approved the aim that the " puir pepill " dwelling upon his lands and heritage, who were " all fischers and of a ressounable nowmer, duelland four myles fra their parroche kirk, and having ane greit river to pas over to the samyn, May haif ane ease in winter seasoun ".