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
“But theer wor a good reason for ’t, Rob’s gied me.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
"I gied them to my little dog; Mak my bed, mammie, noo,"20 "And what did your little doggie do, My bonnie wee croodlin doo?"
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
Seein this, and seein, at the same time, the ludicrousness o' the struggle, his lordship at length gied in, and returned to his seat.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
“Only some silver, colonel; the difference o’ the money he got for the fowls an’ what he gied for the grocer goods.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
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 A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
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
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
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
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 65 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
If McRankine had told me the like, I’d have gien him the lie to his face.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
I was proud o' the laddie, for he did honour to the education I had gien him; and, before he was eighteen, he was as tall as mysel'.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III 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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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