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Yet thae uncovenanted shavers Hae rowth, ye say, o' clash and clavers O' gods and etins—auld wives' havers, But their delight; The voice o' him that tells them quavers Just wi' fair fright.
From Ban and Arriere Ban by Andrew Lang
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 George MacDonald
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 Neil Munro
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 William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
We hath rowth o' them aince; an' they were the poorest an' the blackest bargains that ever poor jailers saw.
From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
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