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"ref": "1936, John Galt, William Roughead, The entail: or, The lairds of Grippy, page 314",
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"ref": "2001, Joan Druett, She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea, page 48",
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"ref": "2008, Steven L. Akins, The Lebor Feasa Runda: A Druidic Grammar of Celtic Lore and Magic",
"text": "And his sister said unto him, “Thou shouldst not blame the boat, dear brother, for ill was the deed thou hast done in killing the father of Lugh Lamhfada; and whatever scaith may come to thee from it, thou dost deserveth it.”",
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"ref": "2011, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses",
"text": "We have had loss— ye have taken scaith.",
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"ref": "1940, Neil Harmon Swanson, The Silent Drum, page 159",
"text": "Ye led him on tae tell ye how the greencoat scaithed him.",
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"ref": "1974, Clare Taylor, British and American abolitionists",
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