Photo Caption: Construction Electrician 2nd Class (SCW) Jeff Tarabochia and Construction Mechanic 2nd Class Tom Newell plant the native ` ahu ` awa, a type of hedge, during an Adopt-a-Stream wetlands community project with students from Aiea Intermediate School.
Wha was it taught him to be a thief Gang awa, Andy Ferguson, awa, for I will na listen to sic words anent my ain dear father.— Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success
"Come awa, then, ma bonnie men!"— Big Game A Story for Girls
"She juist took his hat awa, an' put her father's new ane in its place, an' Mr. Pennycuick never kent the differ till he landed in Thrums.— A Window in Thrums
Here awa, there awa, wandering Willie Now tired with wandering, haud awa hame Come to my bosom, my ae only dearie And tell me thou bring'st me my Willie the same Loud blew the cauld winter winds at our parting It was na the blast brought the tear in my e'e Now welcome the simmer, and welcome my Willie The simmer to nature, my Willie to me Ye hurricanes, rest in the cave o' your slumbers Oh how your wild horrors a lover alarms Awaken, ye breezes!— 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

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