"Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“Were ye no murdered than?” demanded Mrs. Dods, still in an uncertain voice, and only partially opening her eyes — “Are ye very sure ye werena murdered?” ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Ken! — ay — maybe we ken summat, an it werena for harm to him, mistress!” ❋ Unknown (2007)
They werena friends, exactly, but now and again, when he was near the man's cabin, he would stop, and the man would share his food. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)
Hobbie, “if there werena another Graeme in the land but himsell!” ❋ Unknown (2004)
“I have thought till now,” she said, “that the Tower of Tillietudlem might have been a place of succour to those that are ready to perish, even if they werena sae deserving as they should have been — but I see auld fruit has little savour — our suffering and our services have been of an ancient date.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
Me da said something aboot only thinking it be a legend, that it werena real. ❋ JEN HOLLING (2002)
Now the men they werena lazy, but the work was hard tae find ❋ Unknown (2000)
Of good hard cakes his mither makes an bannocks werena scanty. ❋ Unknown (1999)
"The beasts werena likin" Gavin much to start with, and they're proper upset to think he was a-resurrectin-. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
Well, in this lonely place here, there werena many to trouble, and it cam 'to be known that a man could get a dram if he paid for it, and as much as he liked to be payin' for. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
But what strack me first was that his seamit an 'his drawers werena there. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
Dauvid Kenawee cam 'in, an' syne Bandy Wobster; an 'they werena weel set doon when in cam' Jacob Teylor, the smith, an 'Stumpie Mertin alang wi' them. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
The Gairner's wife an 'Mysie Meldrum are twa awfu' tagues for tongue; an 'some o' the rest o's werena far to the hent, I'm dootin '. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
I was aye fairly healthy an 'when we locked the door at nicht, we were satisfied that a' that belanged to us were inside, an 'in safety, even though their wee stomachs maybe werena' ower fu '. ❋ James C. Welsh (N/A)
"You're an unco 'guid lad," she said, wriggling into her nest, "an 'if it werena for some one I ken I'd gie ye anither kiss." ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
"And werena my heart light I wad dee," the most famous of Lady Grizel's songs, originally appeared in _Orpheus Caledonius_ (1725). ❋ Various (N/A)
