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Before this misadventure Nial had been what Mr. Morrison himself called "a waefu' bairn."
PHARAIS AND THE MOUNTAIN LOVERSFIONA MACLEOD
He's a fool that marries at Yule; for when the bairn's to bear the corn's to shear.
THE PROVERBS OF SCOTLANDALEXANDER HISLOP
I have had the reins since you were a bairn, and you have been a handful.
KATE CARNEGIE AND THOSE MINISTERSIAN MACLAREN
Can He no shift it frae the tae airm to the tither, but the bairn maun girn?
THE ELECT LADYGEORGE MACDONALD
Then tha knaws ma son John, 'ee war nowt but a bairn when brether Dick took un to 'Merriky!
STORIES IN LIGHT AND SHADOWBRET HARTE
I brought the bairn here to do her a kindness, no to give her a sore heart.
MERKLANDMRS. OLIPHANT
The bairn dwined so fast that even the mother (and blind indeed's the mother at that bit) saw a little of it.
THE LOST PIBROCHNEIL MUNRO
As sair greets the bairn that's paid at e'en as it that gets its paiks in the morning.
THE PROVERBS OF SCOTLANDALEXANDER HISLOP
The bairn and his nurse were pu'ed oot o' the loch clasped in ane anither's arms; but the life had gaen oot o' them baith.
WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS AND OF SCOTLANDVARIOUS
But sit down, my bairn, and have something to eat after your walk.
THE PORTENT AND OTHER STORIESGEORGE MACDONALD

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