onie
Britishdeterminer
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"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
I coft a stane o' haslock woo', To mak a wab to Johnie o't; For Johnie is my only jo, I loe him best of onie yet.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
"O I wad ask you something, father, An ye wadna angry be;"— "Ask on, ask on, my eldest son, Ask onie thing at me."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (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 Lang, Andrew
Hadst thou taen’ aff some drowsy bummle Wha can do nought but fyke and fumble, ’Twad been nae plea, But he was gleg as onie wumble, That’s owre the sea!
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
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