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And aye a rowth, a roast beef and claret: Syne wha wad starve!
From A Poetical Cook-Book by Moss, Maria J.
I will play the “Cumhadh na Cloinne” Wildest of the rowth of tunes Gathered by the love of mortal From the olden druid runes.
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
"Rich folk hev rowth of friends," rejoined Matthew, "an' olas will hev while the mak of thyself are aboot."
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
O what a canty world were it, Would pain and care and sickness spare it; And Fortune favour worth and merit As they deserve; And aye rowth o' roast-beef and claret, Syne, wha wad starve?
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
There's no a bla'guard i' the haill queentry he wadna sell her till, sae be he was o' an auld eneuch faimily, and had rowth o' siller.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
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