gowany
- a word derived from gowan.
Example Sentences
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I 'll twine a gowany garland Wi' lilies frae the spring; The fairest flowers by Clutha's side In a' their bloom I 'll bring.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
In gowany glens thy burnie strays, Where bonnie lassies bleach their claes; Or trots by hazelly shaws and braes, Wi' hawthorns gray, Where blackbirds join the shepherd's lays At close o' day.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
“My heather land, my heather land, Though fairer lands there be, Thy gowany braes in early days Were gowden ways to me.”
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon
In gowany glens thy burnie strays, Where bonnie lasses bleach their claes; Or trots by hazelly shaws and braes, Wi’ hawthorns gray, Where blackbirds join the shepherd’s lays At close o’ day.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
In our auld, auld days, the gowany braes Are memory's rainbows owre time and storm.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
