Gie my service back to my wife and bairns, And a' gude fellows that speer for me."
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
I ne'er set een on him; neither him nor his braw leddie thought it worth their while to speer after me; but I was at nae loss, by aw accounts."
"Marriage"
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Notwithstanding, therefore, that some of these Lower Miocene strata consist of old shingle-beds several thousand feet in thickness, as in the Rigi, near Lucerne, and in the speer, near Wesen, mountains 5000 and 7000 feet above the sea, the deposition of the whole series must have begun at or below the sea- level.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell