haud
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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But all she said was, "My wee leddy, haud him aff my wee leddy."
From The Man with the Pan Pipes and other Stories by Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)
Vestrum opus est pietas; opus est concordia vestrum; Vos equidem tales haud reor artifices.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
En consanguinei! patriis en exul in oris Christus! et haud alibi tam peregrinus erat.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Whan she cam to Earl Richard's house, The sheets war Hollan' fine; "O haud awa thae linen sheets, And bring to me the linsey clouts,155 I hae been best used in."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
The lasses gaed wand'ring their lanes i' the loan, The auld folks were girnin' wi' mony a groan; 'The warld's seerly gyte, sirs, there's never been seen Sic wark as they haud aboot Tipperty's Jean.'
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick
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