slade
Americannoun
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But he slade aye awa or the sun was up, He ne’er could look straught on Macmillan’s cup;58 They watch’d—but nane saw him his brose ever sup Nor a spune sought Aiken-drum.
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
For soul and sense had waxed amort To wold and weald, to slade and stream; And all he heard was her soft word As one adream.
From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius
That theffe I saw to nyght, Here be-side a slade.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
Straucht ower the water slade frae the mune A glimmer o' cauld weet licht; Ane o' her horns rase the water abune, And lampit across the nicht.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George
My Julia's arms encircled me, An' saftly slade the hours awa', Till dawning coost a glimm'rin' e'e Upon the hills o' Gallowa'.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
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