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His lairdship wrote a braw note of acknowledgements to my maister, and gie it me to take away.

From The Lost Lady of Lone by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

And here, me laird, are two letters the turnkey gave me to hand to your lairdship.

From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

And then his lairdship laughed, and invited them to enter the house, and walk into the library.

From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

Ye may be richt aboot the lan', laird, the mair's the pity!" answered Grizzie; "but the futpath, beggin' the pardon o' baith lairdship and lordship, belangs to me as muckle as to aither o' ye.

From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by MacDonald, George

His lairdship," she said, "maunna be hurried puttin' on his dressin'-goon.

From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by MacDonald, George