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There's rowth a parcels for ye at John Sharpe's door, yonder.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander
Leave to the gods your ilka care; If that they think us worth their while, They can a rowth o' blessings spare, Which will our fashous fears beguile.'
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
And aye a rowth, a roast beef and claret: Syne wha wad starve!
From A Poetical Cook-Book by Moss, Maria J.
When the fairy was at my cradle-side and gave my mother choice of my gifts, I wish she had chosen rowth of real friends.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
I've kept auld Doom in times o' rowth and splendour, and noo I'm spared to see't rouped, the laird a dyvour and a nameless wanderer ower the face o' the earth.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
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