owse
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God ye good-morn, Goff; I's e'en fain You'll put my owse out o' his pain.
From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman
Yon herd o' fat owsen that rout i' the glen, Sax naigies that nibble the lea; The kye i' the sheugh, and the sheep i' the pen, I'se gie a', dear Tibby, to thee.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
My Jockie toils upon the plain, Thro' wind and weet, thro' frost and snaw: And o'er the lea I leuk fu' fain, When Jockie's owsen hameward ca'.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
O lye ye here for owsen, dear sons, Or lie ye here for kye?
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
By many a winding road, from far and nigh, Came sheep and owsen, shelts, and stirks, and kye; Goodwives and men, and lads and lasses fair, Cracking their jokes, or courting pair and pair.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan
"Her owsen may dee in the house, billie, And her kye into the byre, And I sall hae naething to mysel, But a fat fadge by the fire."
From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
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