owsen
- plural of owse.
Example Sentences
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My Jockey toils upon the plain, Thro’ wind and weet, thro’ frost and snaw; And o’er the lea I leuk fu’ fain, When Jockey’s owsen hameward ca’.
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
I had sax owsen in a pleugh, They drew a’ weel eneugh, I sell’d them a’ just ane by ane; Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.
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
I. When o’er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin-time is near, my jo; And owsen frae the furrow’d field Return sae dowf and weary, O!
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
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 Buchan, Patrick
Young Robie was the brawest lad, The flower and pride of a’ the glen; And he had owsen, sheep, and kye, And wanton naigies nine or ten.
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
