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
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
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
The ladie met wi' a beggar-wife,125 And gied her half o' crown— "Tell a' your neebours whan ye gae hame, That Earl Richard's your gude-son."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 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
Rab in pursuit wi’ a’ his might Fell lengthways at the yett, The groans he gied were as the fa’, For Rab was heavy wecht.
From Splores of a Halloween, Twenty Years Ago by Alexander Dick
Settin’ it in the sod o’ her grave gied me a comfort I can’t describe to ye.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
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 Sir Walter Scott
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
But ye hae naething to fear; I will be as mim in the castle as ye wad be if gieing Florence yer hand in the kirk.”
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
It wasna sae in the time when Gawin Elliot that Glenfernie draws frae was hanged for gieing us that word!
From Foes by Mary Johnston
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
Couldna ye hae come to me, and gien me six and eightpence for an advice?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
The besiegers were instantly enveloped in gloom, and Archy, escaping from the niche from whence he had struck the blow, said unto himself—"I've gien ye a mark to find out who you are, neighbour."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
The Word o’ the Lord must be gien to men, as long as men people the earth.”
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
It willed that the lave o' the gear should be gien to the puir o' the parish; for nane o' the twa folk that laid claim to it had the shadow o' a richt.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
“I would think, Jean,” Haggart answered, reflectively, “that he had gien siller for’t; ay, I would wonder——” “What would you wonder?”
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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