"Aye ban weigh two hundret an 'saxty pounds," he announced. ❋ Unknown (1918)
The first time he cam 'sparkin', he tauld me he wes jist fufty-sax, an 'then ah catchet him up aboot hoo auld he wes the time he cam' to these pairts, an 'anither time ah got it oot o' him hoo lang yon wes afore the railroad wes pit in to Cheemaun, an 'a rin it up in ma mind, an' ah calcalate he was saxty-siven. ❋ Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (1918)
He told me that the pathetic part of it was that the dead man was a total stranger in the city; and then he winked and asked if I knew that though the city paid the coroner his salary, the state guaranteed an extra fee of 'saxty dollar' to that official for every stranger who met with sudden death within our limits? ❋ Alice Ames Winter (1904)
Ane o 'them, let into the corn exchange a murky nicht, killed saxty in ten meenits, an' had to be dragged awa 'by the tail. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
Dere was saxty o's a'kame inte te quintry hel a lit an lim an nane o's a'dyit pat Shonie Magwillivray an an otter Ross lad dat kam oure wi's an mai pi dem twa wad a dyit gintey hed bitten at hame. ❋ Unknown (1893)
"I hae fallen on evil days, Mysie; saxty years syne wives and bairns werena sae contrarie." ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)
` ` Na, whare was the through-stane, that it didna come before our een till e'enow? '' said Ochiltree; ` ` for I hae ken'd this auld kirk, man and bairn, for saxty lang years, and I neer noticed it afore; and it's nae sic mote neither, but what ane might see it in their parritch. '' ❋ Unknown (1845)
"Na, whare was the through-stane, that it didna come before our een till e'enow?" said Ochiltree; "for I hae ken'd this auld kirk, man and bairn, for saxty lang years, and I neer noticed it afore; and it's nae sic mote neither, but what ane might see it in their parritch." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
a 'got as far as saxty-three, and then a' lost coont. ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)
It's auchty-fower pennies, a hundred an 'saxty-aucht ha'pennies an' -- an '-- I canna think hoo mony farthings. " ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
"As muckle as atween auld Peter Spens and his wife, wha was saxteen when he was saxty, and she was playing at dumps in the street when her man was waiting for her to make his porridge. ❋ Unknown (1898)
I'll pick him up before he gets to Milli Lagoon, which is only saxty miles from here. " ❋ Louis Becke (1884)
And when the laird in his extremity swore a great oath that unless it was given up he would never give another halfpenny, the answer was ” “Ech, laird, it wad be lang or ye gied me saxty.” ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)
“Na, whare was the through-stane, that it didna come before our een till e’enow?” said Ochiltree; “for I hae ken’d this auld kirk, man and bairn, for saxty lang years, and I neer noticed it afore; and it’s nae sic mote neither, but what ane might see it in their parritch.” ❋ Unknown (1584)
