loun
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A Lord may be a lousy loun, Wi' ribband, star and a' that.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
"Thou shalt not yield to lord or loun, Nor yet shalt thou yield to me; But yield thee to the bracken-bush That grows on yonder lily lea!"
From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee
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
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
Thou shalt not yield to lord nor loun, Nor yet shalt thou yield to me; But yield thee to the braken-bush That grows on yon lily-lee.'
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
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