lades
- present tense form of lade (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
As bees flee hame wi’ lades o’ treasure, The minutes wing’d their way wi’ pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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
Had Franklin seen this day He had not slept his last long lonely sleep Where the chill ice-pack lades the frozen deep.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 by Various
As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, loads The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious!
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan
If we say gents, why not say lades?
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly
