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"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
"Eh, you've rowth o' friends, you're a teeran crew, but I cares laal for any on you."
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time 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 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
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
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