blae
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of blae
1150–1200; Middle English (north) bla < Old Norse blā blackish blue; see blue
Example Sentences
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The cauld blae North was streaming forth Her lights, wi' hissing, eerie din, Athort the lift they start and shift, Like Fortune's favours, tint as win.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
The cauld blae North was streaming forth Her lights, wi' hissing, eerie din; Athwart the lift they start and shift, Like Fortune's favors, tint as win.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
I’ve seen ’s hae days to fricht us a’, The Pentlands poothered weel wi’ snaw, The ways half-smoored wi’ liquid thaw, An’ half-congealin’, The snell an’ scowtherin’ norther blaw Frae blae Brunteelan’.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dalrymple has been lang our fae, M’Gill has wrought us meikle wae, And that curs’d rascal call’d M’Quhae, And baith the Shaws, That aft ha’e made us black and blae, Wi’ vengefu’ paws.
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
Are ye to eat your meat by the cheeks of a red fire, and think upon this poor sick lad of mine, biting his finger ends on a blae muir for cauld and hunger?
From Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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