fecht
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Leave me to fecht the Englishers; I ken how to do't.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
And I will tell the Master so, and fecht him, by Cot, himself!”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Burns's The Twa Dogs: "To thrum guitars an' fecht wi nowte."
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
He is hame to his lady gane, As he had done before, O; Says, "Madam I must go and fecht, On the Dowie Downs o' Yarrow."
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
No matter; better please a fool than fecht ’im.”
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables
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