loun
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The Kettle o' the Kirk and State, Perhaps a clout may fail in't; But deil a foreign tinkler loun Shall ever ca'a nail in't.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
I no sabe Dicky; he allee time lun loun camp; I no look; too muchee work.
From A Summer in a Canyon by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
I pointed to my faither's ha'— Yon bonnie bield ayont the shaw, Sae loun that there nae blast could blaw:— Wad she no bide in Gowrie?
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
"The soft season, the firmament serene, The loun illuminate air, and firth amene The silver-scalit fishes on the grete O'er-thwart clear streams sprinkillond for the heat," —Gawin Douglas.
From Eugene Aram — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The carline she was stark and sture, She aff the hinges dang the dure; "O is your bairn to laird or loun, Or is it to your father's groom?"
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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