awmous
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The word awmous severs good company.
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"You have got a good awmous, Carey, will sleep sound, and think nothing of it on the morrow?" said the youth.
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By my feth, sirrah?" replied the latter, amazed and irritated at the singular ease and impudence of the mendicant, and above all at his presumptuous familiarity, "but that's a new way to seek awmous.
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But he had, doubtless, so far succeeded in his plans; for he possessed a most unenviable fame for all sort of cantrips and sorceries; and the wandering beggar would rather have solicited a bit of bread from the iron hand of misery itself, than ventured near Ballochgray to ask his awmous.
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He's a proud beggar that maks his ain awmous.
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