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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.
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
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 Hogg, James
"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
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
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