- a variation of gi.
gie
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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“O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as others see us!”
From Slate ● May 15, 2015
Oh wad some power the giftie gie us.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week in Carne gie Hall he played Beethoven's Sonata No. 18 in E flat with the same lithe rhythms and robust tone that brought him fame in the first place.
From Time Magazine Archive
But would ye no gie us a loan o’ your hob to heat our wee tin o’ beans before we go?”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
I asked that he should gie me lodging for the nicht.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Will gied a cuddie’s roar— Hugh in a lowe, wi’ door in hand, Said he would them he-haw, When Jock like ony sheep did bae, And Pate like cock did craw.
From Splores of a Halloween, Twenty Years Ago by Dick, Alexander
As soon as they'd finished their breakfast, the leddy took oot a bonny silken purse, that looked as if it wad burst, and gied Nance a piece o' gowd.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
“What hae ye dune wi’ the notes, Tam, that the lang chield up by there gied ye?
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various
But what did appear odd, an' gied me a start too, wor my seein' a boat by the sloop's side wi' a man in it, who I could a'most sweared wor the Rogue's Ferry priest.
From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne
“Sartinly, Master: else how could I ha’ gied her the packidge?
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
I thort I kud a made up for it, by gieing ye somethin’ ye mout a liked better.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
I dinna see how that can be, if ye begin by gieing maybe the feck o' twal shillings Scots for your supper; but young folks are aye venturesome, and think to get siller that way.
From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Scott, Walter, Sir
I hae just a shilling of this gentleman's gieing, and a boddle of my ain; and ye wunna, bend your will sae muckle as to take up the siller that's flung at your feet!
From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir
Ay, ay, ye look pitifu’ and ye can lift a head and shake up a pillow without gieing a body’s neck a thraw.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)
He was gieing his horse a drink when I met him, and he let me tell him his fortune.
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
The baldheid's leadin' them a', I tellt ye he'd——Na, he's gien up! it'll be the little block fellow, he's peckin' up tairible!
From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various
I believe 'at gien the verra deevil himsel' had been wi' me sae lang, I wadna hae the hert to turn him aboot his ill business.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
She's taen him in her arms twa, And gien him kisses thorough,50 And wi' her tears she bath'd his wounds, Upo' the braes o' Yarrow.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
It is no muckle worth: but ye should na look a gien horse in the moo’.—Yours ever, R. L. Stevenson.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Her father's gien her a bonny ship, And sent her to the stran'; She's taen her young son in her arms, And turn'd her back to the lan'.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
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