awmous
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Ye wouldna like to think of your mother trailing every week to the like of Wilson for an awmous, streeking out her auld hand for charity.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
The Bishop rich, he could not preach For sporting with the lasses; The silly friar behoved to fleech For awmous as he passes: The curate his creed He could not read,— Shame fa' company!
From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir
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.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
He's a proud beggar that maks his ain awmous.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
They were just decent bien bodies; ony poor creature that had face to beg got an awmous, and welcome—they that were shamefaced gaed by, and twice as welcome.
From Chronicles of the Canongate by Scott, Walter, Sir
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