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
Ay, it's ower true, for she showed me the apples ye gied her in a present.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
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
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
Settin' it in the sod o' her grave gied me a comfort I can't describe to ye.
From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne
And wi' that he gied me a pu' by the jacket, that maist garred me fa' on the deck.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
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)
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
It wasna sae in the time when Gawin Elliot that Glenfernie draws frae was hanged for gieing us that word!
From Foes by Johnston, Mary
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)
An' we're baith in the richt o't too, for they've jist gien him the bit red flag—that means he's got firsst prize.
From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various
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 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
The Word o’ the Lord must be gien to men, as long as men people the earth.”
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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
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