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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 Burns, Robert
A Lord may be a lousy loun, Wi' ribband, star and a' that.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
I no sabe Dicky; he allee time lun loun camp; I no look; too muchee work.
From A Summer in a Canyon by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
I think," said the ancient patriarch, "I'll just rest whar I am; it's a bonny sunny day, and the den is a' loun and sheltered.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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