hansel
Americannoun
noun
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Our monarch’s hindmost year but ane Was five-and-twenty days begun, Twas then a blast o’ Janwar win’ Blew hansel in on Robin.
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
There is no time to follow the steps of Burns from old Alloway, by the Bonnie Doon in the clay-built hut, where the January wind blew hansel in on Robin—to Mt.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green
As he himself says,— A blast o' Janwar' win' Blew hansel in on Robin.
From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell
And so I went on till noon, without taking hansel, and I said to myself, 'Would Heaven I had never come to Baghdad!'
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Young kings upon their hansel throne Are no sae blest as I am, O!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
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