"Owre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Moniplies (also for sense of 'behoved'): 'Ae auld hirplin deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way, and offer me a pig (earthern pot—etym. dub.), as he said "just to put my Scotch ointment in;" and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit owre amang his own pigs, and damaged a score of them.' So also Dandie Dinmont in the postchaise: ''Od! I hope ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... Owre the seas I march this morning, Listed, tested, sworn an' a', Forced by your confounded girning. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various
... greater thief did never hyde; He never tyris For to brek byris, Owre muir and myris, ...
— The Balladists - Famous Scots Series • John Geddie
... this variety is growing near Pine Plains here in Dutchess County, on the Old Strever Homestead. This property was later sold to people named Owre, who tried to have the variety named after them. I believe that Strever is ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various
... far rather: Whistle owre the lave o't! Yet we may say of him as of Chaucer, that of life and the world, as they come before him, his view is large, free, shrewd, benignant,—truly poetic, therefore; and his manner of rendering what he sees is to match. But we must note, at the same time, his great difference from Chaucer. ...
— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... Slavers an' Matt, An' the Mansion House stairs we were just alongside, When we a' three see'd somethin', but didn't ken what, That was splashin' and labberin', aboot i' the tide. 'It's a fluiker,' ki Dick; 'No,' ki Matt, 'its owre big, It luik'd mair like a skyet when aw furst seed it rise;' Kiv aw—for aw'd getten a gliff o' the wig— 'Ods marcy! wey, ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson
... Epitaph on Donald Owre, a son of the Lord of the Isles, who raised a rebellion against James IV in 1503, Dunbar had a great opportunity for an outburst against the Highlanders, of which, however, he did not take advantage, but confined himself to a denunciation of treachery in general. In the "Dance ...
— An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) • Robert S. Rait |
