thrave
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of thrave
Old English threfe, of Scandinavian origin
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Of thee she entertains the blessed throngs, And says to them, while yet my body thrave On earth, I gat much honour which he gave, Commending me in his commended songs.
From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner
A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request: I'll get a blessin' wi' the lave, And never miss 't!
From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt
A daimen-icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request: I'll get a blessin' wi' the lave, And never miss't!
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
The hospital of St. Leonard's, near York, had received, from an ancient grant of King Athelstane, a right of levying a thrave of corn upon every ploughland in the county.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
A daimen icher in a thrave 'S a sma' request; I'll get a blessin' wi' the lave An' never miss't!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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