"Gin I dae that I canna saw wood," objected Peter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference

Sandy canna sleep without his nichtkep -- no 'him!.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

"Bit, sir, you canna do it," said Duncan peevishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference

But I canna sit wi 'noo buits; they're that uneasy.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

I canna bide to hae't blaret a 'gait an' a 'at ance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

"An 'wi' a 'her fauts a body canna help likin' her.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

I canna mind what it was, an 'never will, I suppose.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

A canna bed is after the same order, yet is effective.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference

It juist garrs my backbeen dirl, an 'I canna sit still.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

I canna tell it an 'I canna thole it till I do tell it.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

A 'the thinkin' i 'the warl' canna alter a single fac '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

There 's a something in love that your gowd canna move.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

I canna do wi 'noo buits ava, till I've worn them a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

Sic love as canna find a tongue, but only hearts can feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

Fresh eggs! mind you, an 'me canna get yin for my canaries!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

I dinna ken hoo it is ava ', I canna help mysel' sometimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

"Lord, they canna be aught else!" decisively returned Peter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

"I canna lie here like a rat in a hole a 'my days," said Dan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

Ye canna expeck a magic lantern to do what ye canna do yersel '.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

"Hoot ay! Nellie, but we canna 'help it," a neighbor would reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

You did fine, an 'I canna see how Smillie has onything ado wi' it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

'We canna do wi' them ava, 'they cried;' gie us the Psalms o 'Dauvit.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa] Reference

"I wish you'd step out and look at the canna bed," said Winnie grimly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Hill] Reference

She canna 'last very lang, puir thing, an' she was askin 'aboot you when.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

I hae na room for my hump, an 'I canna lie upo' 't, for that wad kill me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

I was a bairn oot fishin 'for troots -- an' I canna get the better o't. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

"It canna 'be true," said Mrs. Sinclair, still unable to believe the news.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

You hae been life itsel 'to me, Mysie, an' I canna think that you dinna care!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

When he's in thae argey-bargeyin 'strums o' his, I canna be bathered wi 'him!.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

I canna just be putting the right words to it, but, man, I feel it inside o 'me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

If cannas are started from seed follow this direction: File holes in the canna seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference

"But if I'm plann'd, I mun goa, and if they don't loike my claathes, I canna help 't.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference

"Barry Seymour's a puir weak fule and canna rule his ain hoose," came the curt answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

"Well," she said, "thaa canna goa; thaa has no claathes fit to wear amang them grand foak.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference

A neighbour gave Philip some canna bulbs which he planted in an old sieve filled with rich dirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference

"Lodsake, I canna sing," said Geordie, with the air of a man who wanted to be told he could sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference