dowie
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"A' was toom, a' heartless-like, an' bare; Her dowie pain she culdna mair conceal— The heart, they'll say, will never lie that's leal."
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
It’s no the loss o’ warl’s gear, That could sae bitter draw the tear, Or mak our bardie, dowie, wear The mourning weed; He’s lost a friend and neebor dear, In Mailie dead.
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
The very sun glints eerie on the gilded wa'; An' aye the nicht sae drearie, Ere the dowie morn daw, Whan I canna win to see you, My Jamie, ava'.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
I hae been in a dowie and desponding condition for a year or mair.”
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
But ere three months were at an end, Lord Wearie came again; But dowie dowie was his heart When first he came hame.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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