roose

Example Sentences

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Let ilka ane roose the ford as they find it.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

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

Begins, “The roose as saith the philosopher Plinius hath doble verteus.”

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

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

Lips, like the roses, fresh moisten'd wi' dew; Say, maun I roose your een's pawkie scorning?

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles