Citations:swank

English citations of swank

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- 1804, Robert Burns, “The Auld Farmer’s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare, Maggie; on Giving Her the Accustomed Ripp of Corn to Hansel in the New-Year”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. [...] With His Life and Character, Edinburgh: John Turnbull, High-Street; for Cameron and Co. Booksellers, Trongate, Glasgow, →OCLC, pages 101 and 217:
  [page 101] Thou ance was i' the foremoſt rank, / A filly buirdly, ſteeve, and ſwank, / An' ſet weel down a ſhapely ſhank / As e'er tread yird; / An' could hae flown out-owre a ſtank / Like onie bird. […] [page 217, column 2] swank, stately, jolly.