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
I asked that he should gie me lodging for the nicht.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
“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
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
Many’s the fat buck I hae carried in theer, afore Sir Marmaduke took a notion I stealed his deer, an’ gied me the sack from lookin’ after them.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
Settin' it in the sod o' her grave gied me a comfort I can't describe to ye.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
Why, if it had a been a woman eyther fallin' over or flung, she'd ha' gied tongue a second time—ay, a good many times—'fore getting silenced.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
She at length yielded to their solicitations, and gied him her hand; but she was candid enough to confess to him, that her affection couldna accompany it, though her respect and duty should.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
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
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 was gieing his horse a drink when I met him, and he let me tell him his fortune.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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
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
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
But deil may care—wad ye believe it?—it was gien against us here, too, cast wi' a' expenses.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
Ye maunna tak it ill, my lord," said Peter, "gien the laads be ta'en aback wi' the news.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. 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
"An' what for, gien I may mak bold to speir, sir?" she went on.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
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