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"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
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
"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
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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