""It's no that a'thegither 'at tribles me, Janet; it's mair' at I'll be expeckit to sing an 'luik pleased-like, an' I div not ken hoo it'll be poassible, an 'you naegait' ithin my sicht or my cry, or the hearin 'o' my ears.""
"I kept my senses thegither, whilk has been thought wonderful by all that ever saw the place; and I helped myself with my hands as gallantly as I could, and to the bottom I came."
"I doubt not but what you told her Majesty, that I was the same David Deans of whom there was a sport at the Revolution, when I noited thegither the heads of twa false prophets, these ungracious Graces the prelates, as they stood on the Hie Street, after being expelled from the Convention-parliament. 77 77"