- 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
“If yeh dress et for us, Oi’ll gie ye four jots,” I said, knowing it to be a generous price.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
I asked that he should gie me lodging for the nicht.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Settin' it in the sod o' her grave gied me a comfort I can't describe to ye.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
I had a word or two with that theer ’un, whiles ye war a writin’ him out his answer; an’ he gied me a consid’rable insight into theer way o’ translatin’ the Scripter.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
“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
He wor by the gate here only a short whiles ago, and gied me orders for reportin’ to him there.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
But I dinna think I had been three hours in bed, when Priscilla gied me a dunch with her elbow, and, says she— "Waken, Reuben! waken!—there's an unco knocking at the street-door."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
Na, na, a' wesna feared o' that when a' examined yon man gieing oot the Psalm, but a' didna like his een.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren
He hadna a yearly income like Thomas Elliot; and, strange to say, he got the blame of gieing him a howff at Luckie Riddle's.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
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 G. H. (George Henry) Edwards
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 Sir Walter Scott
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 Mayne Reid
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
The breakfast, however, was an excellent one, and gien wi' a hearty welcome and richt guid-will.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
He had been guid to her when he had gien her friens, an' guid to her when he took them to himsel; an' she kent she was now going to baith Him and them.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
"Ow weel, gien that be a', I'll see efter that wi' the marchioness."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
"It will be an unreasonable request I winna grant to ane wha has gien me my ain price," replied the farmer.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
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