yowe
Britishnoun
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After the former vice president’s event in Spartanburg, S.C., on Friday evening, Antwion Yowe, 43, a local pastor, summoned a favored family analogy about separating standout options from the rest.
From New York Times
At Ankerwyke Alnwick enjoined “that ye hafe an honeste woman seruaund in your kychyne, brewhowse and bakehowse, deyhowse and selere wythe an honeste damyselle wythe hire to saruf yowe and your sustres in thise saide offices, so that your saide sustres for occupacyone in any of the saide offices be ne letted fro diuine seruice.”
From Project Gutenberg
Bobbin-a-Bobbin bent his bow, And shot at a woodcock and kill'd a yowe: The yowe cried ba, and he ran away, But never came back 'till midsummer-day.
From Project Gutenberg
Wherfore to alle estates here present, This plesant tyme, moste of lustynesse, May, is nowe comen to fore yowe of entent, To bringe yowe alle to joye and fresshnesse, Prosparitee, welfare, and al gladnesse; And al that may youre hyenesse qweerne and pleese, In any parte or doone youre hertes eese.
From Project Gutenberg
Mony a frost and mony a thowe, sune makes mony a rotten yowe.
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