onie
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She vow'd, she swore she wad be mine, She said she lo'ed me best o' onie; But, ah! the fickle, faithless quean, She 's ta'en the carl, and left her Johnnie!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
And they dinna like him onie better for ’t.”
From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Emily Sarah Holt
"I hae na onie lands or rents, Lying at libertie; Nor hae I onie education,115 To dance along wi' thee."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
Four and twenty ladies fairWere playing at the chess,And out then cam the fair Janet,As green as onie grass.
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
When he was brought out he was as big as an ostrich, and "much wonder was thereat, for the lycke had not been seen in this londe nor in onie odir."
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook
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