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The sombre-thoughted Scotchman, looking for trouble, tersely observes: "Mony haws, Mony snaws."
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje
The sombre-thoughted Scotchman, looking for trouble, tersely observes: "Mony haws, Mony snaws."
From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje
When frosts lay lang, an’ snaws were deep, An’ threaten’d labour back to keep, I gied thy cog a wee-bit heap Aboon the timmer; I ken’d my Maggie wad na sleep For that, or simmer.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
The sun had clos’d the winter day, The curlers quat their roaring play, An’ hunger’d maukin ta’en her way To kail-yards green, While faithless snaws ilk step betray Whare she has been.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
"The sun had clos'd the winter day, The Curlers quat their roarin play, An' hunger's Maukin ta'en her way To kail-yards green, While faithless snaws ilk step betray Whare she had been."
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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