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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
And aye a rowth, a roast beef and claret: Syne wha wad starve!
From A Poetical Cook-Book by Moss, Maria J.
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 Burns, Robert
I will play the “Cumhadh na Cloinne” Wildest of the rowth of tunes Gathered by the love of mortal From the olden druid runes.
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
When the fairy was at my cradle-side and gave my mother choice of my gifts, I wish she had chosen rowth of real friends.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
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