dizen

Example Sentences

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Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

O man," said he to Robin, "I wad pay ye half a dizen bottles o' wine wi' as great cheerfu'ness as I raise this glass to my lips.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various

Scarborough's ower classy for t' likes o' Mary an' me; it's all reight for bettermy-bodies that likes to dizen theirselves out an' sook cigars on church parade.

From Tales of the Ridings by Vaughan, C.

Ye think ye've a hard time o't, but there's waur things than sewin' jackets at thirteenpence the dizen.'

From The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)

I dinna consort wi' shoplifters, an' idiots, an' suckin' bairns—wi' long nose, an' short nose, an' pug nose, an' seventeen Deuks o' Wellington, let alone a baker's dizen o' Queens.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas