raree show
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Help Cooper, Hughs, and Snow, with a hey, with a hey, To pull down raree show, with a ho: So, so, the gyant's down, Let's masters out of pound, With a hey, &c.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
The anxious reader must not suppose that we were standing all this while, with finger in mouth, idly gaping like children on a raree show.
From The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems
Q. Has this raree show caused you to wish to enlist in the Royal Navy?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 by Various
Come hither, Topham, come, with a hey, with a hey; Bring a pipe and a drum, with a ho; Where'er about I go, Attend my raree show, With a hey, trany, nony, nony, no.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
That monstrous foul beast, with a hey, with a hey, Has houses twain in's chest, with a ho; O Cowper, Hughes, and Snow, Stop thief with raree show, With a hey, &c.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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