roose
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“Rachel had ay a gude roose of hersel’,” said Becky Glibbans, as Miss Isabella concluded.
From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by Galt, John
Faites mes baissemains respectueuses, To sentimental sister Susie, And honest Lucky; no to roose you, Ye may be proud, That sic a couple Fate allows ye, To grace your blood.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
Forgive the Bard! my fond regard For ane that shares my bosom, Inspires my Muse to gie 'm his dues For deil a hair I roose him.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
And the frenche molinet, moralizinge the Romant of the roose in frenche, and turnynge it oute of verse into proese, writeth, Ha si i’eusse creu Theophraste, &c.
From Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by Kingsley, G. H. (George Henry)
The cauld morality that never made ony ane mair moral, taks nae hand o’ the people; an’ patronage, as meikle’s they roose it, winna keep up either kirk or manse o’ itsel.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay
"Sall, Domsie was roosed," Drumsheugh explained in the Muirtown inn next market.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Maclaren, Ian
We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a sair stomach,' and a' saw MacLure wes roosed.
From A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 1 by Maclaren, Ian
He roosed my een, sae bonnie blue, He roos’d my waist sae genty sma’, And ay my heart came to my mou’ When ne’er a body heard or saw.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
“Andrew Black was an auld freend o’ mine, an’ a big, stoot, angry man he is—kindly disposed, nae doot, when ye let him alane, but a perfe’t deevil incarnate when he’s roosed.
From Hunted and Harried by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Noo this roosed ma suspicions, for it's against reason for a man tae be dividing intae classes till the end o' his sermon.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Maclaren, Ian
