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whin

indicates fury. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178]

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I do not,' sez Peg, 'but dhrunk or sober I'll tear the hide off your back wid a shovel whin I've stopped singin'.' "'Say you so, Peg Barney?' sez I.

"I saluted - but for the life av me I mint to shake hands whin I went in.

Or there won't be a rag av kit betune thim whin you do.'

They come round me an' shuk me, an' I tould thim I was in privit employ wid an income av me own, an' a drrrawin'-room fit to bate the Quane's; an' wid me lies an' me shtories an' nonsinse gin'rally, I kept 'em quiet in wan way an' another, knockin' roun' the camp.'Twas bad even thin whin I was the Angil av Peace.

He cut Peg Barney as near as might be on the oi that I'd squshed whin we first met.

"There was no tucker in the draf' whin ut fell in for the march, an' divil a wurrd about 'illegality' cud I hear.

An' by the Holy Articles av War, whin they wint aboord they cheered him till they cudn't spake, an' that, mark you, has not come about wid a draf' in the mlm'ry av livin' man!

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The resident, who didn't want to be named, said they got a brief respite over Christmas but the problem is as bad as ever now the schools - Acklam Whin Primary and St Clare's RC Primary - are back.

Residents at end of tether with schools' selfish parents

Total quantity or scope of tender: Construction of whin dust path, length approximately 82metres and associated vegetation clearance, tree removal and drainage works.

Polmont Woods Phase 2

The WHIN Safe Huber Needle is available in three models: a standard model, one with with a needle-free injection site, and a model with an open Y-injection site.

B. Braun launches WHIN Safe Huber Needle

redwing) despite larks all around him; possibly because the redwing is disoriented by the burning (bonning) of the heather (to encourage new shoots for grouse) and the whin (gorse, whose yellow seeds and flowers 'pop') in the spring.

"see where they are burning the heather, behind Rotherhope yonder?"

And so he was bein' a statesman whin he vetoed the parental leave bill, which he said was such a foine thing durin' the campaign?"