Citations:browden

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English citations of browden

  • 1783, Samuel Rutherford, Letters of Samuel Rutherford:
    We are fools to be brouden and fond of a pawn in the loof of our hand: living on trust by faith may well content us.
  • 1938, Alexander Rose, The Scottish Works of Alexander Rose, page 84:
    Their browden breasts that night took little sleep, An' turs'd again as soon's the day did peep.

Scots citations of browden

  • 1597, Alexander Montgomery, The Cherrie and the Slae:
    As scho delyts into the low, Sae was I browdin of my bow, Als ignorant as scho.
  • 1780, Allan Ramsay, Poems on Several Occasions - Volume 1, page 64:
    His body was with blood a' browden, He grain'd like ' ony ghaist;
  • 1946, Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Scottish Pageant: 55 B.C.-A.D. 1513, page 155:
    Thair best and browden bricht baneris And hors hewit on seir maneiris
  • 1987, Priscilla J. Bawcutt, Felicity Riddy, Thomas Crawford, Longer Scottish Poems: 1650-1830, page 111:
    The millart never notic'd Tam, Sae browden'd he the ba', He rumblid rudely like a ram, Dang o'er whiles ane, whiles twa: