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Tho' I should wander Terra o'er, In all her climes, Grant me but this, I ask no more, Aye rowth o' rhymes.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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
"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 Sir Hall Caine
And aye a rowth, a roast beef and claret: Syne wha wad starve!
From A Poetical Cook-Book by Maria J. Moss
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
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