yowe
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Yeo sometimes represents yew, spelt yowe by Palsgrave.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
An' 'e ligs on 'is back i' the grip, wi noän to lend 'im a shove, Woorse nor a far-welter'd yowe: fur, Sammy, 'e married fur luvv.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered an oration, and the new king, speaking again, offered his thanks in English to "God, and yowe Spirituel and Temporel, and alle the Astates of the lond."
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
Or, if he wonders up the howe, Her living image in her yowe Comes bleating to him, owre the knowe, For bits o’ bread; An’ down the briny pearls rowe For Mailie dead.
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 Robert Burns
Therfor i would aduyse yowe as yowe tender youer lyf to deuyse some exscuse to shift of youer attendance at this parleament.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
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