Example Sentences

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‘Your father will shoe your fu’ fair foot, Your mother will glove your hand; Your sister will lace your middle jimp Wi’ the new-made London band.

From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Sidgwick, Frank

"Thy father will shoe thy bonny foot, "Thy mother will glove thy hand, "Thy sister will lace thy middle jimp, "Till Lord Gregory come to land.

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Scott, Walter, Sir

O wha will shoe my fair foot, And wha will glove my han'?

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

‘O wha will shoe my fu’ fair foot?

From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Another instance is in the opening verse of Sir Walter Scott's version of "The Lass of Lochroyan:" Oh wha will shoe my bonny foot?

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various