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
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
Oh wad some power the giftie gie us.
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
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
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
Then she gied them the beer and the wine, And they gied her the ginger; But she gied them a far better thing,15 The goud ring aff her finger.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
Seed her; gied her the packidge; an’ sayed, what you told me to say.”
From The White Gauntlet 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
An' div ye think, Mr. Crathie, 'at gien Jesus Christ had had a horse to sell, he wad hae hidden frae him 'at wad buy ae hair o' a fau't 'at the beast hed?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
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