poortith
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A man may hae an honest heart, Tho' poortith hourly stare him; poverty A man may tak a neibor's part, Yet hae nae cash to spare him.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
Where ance the coggie hirpled fair, And blithesome poortith toomed the loof, There's nae a burnie giglet rare But blaws in ilka jinking coof.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Where ance the coggie hirpled fair, And blithesome poortith toomed the loof There's nae a burnie giglet rare But blaws in ilka jinking coof.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
A-well-a-day!" said Richie; "but that maunna be, man—I ken weel, by sad experience, that poortith takes away pith, and the man sits full still that has a rent in his breeks.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
Come wealth, come poortith, late or soon, Heaven send your heart-strings ay in tune, And screw your temper pins aboon A fifth or mair, The melancholious, lazy croon O’ cankrie care.
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 Robert Burns
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