gae
Britishverb
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From nearly a million throats came the chant, half in mourning, half in triumph: "Mahatma Gandhi amar ho gae!"
From Time Magazine Archive
In one hand Cuchulain carries the gae bolga, the spear that is so mighty only he can throw it.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
"I have four-and-twenty milk-white cows, All calved in a day;30 You'll have them, and as much hained grass As they all on can gae."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
There's ne'er a clean sark gae on my back, Nor yet a kame gae in my hair; There's neither coal nor candle licht55 Shall shine in my bouer for ever mair.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
The Highlandmen drew their claymores, And gae a warlike shout; But Johnie's merry men kept the yett, Nae ane durst venture out.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
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