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  • You gied me your hand, while your heart it was sore.

    Letter 236 2009

  • Me þæt þuhte wrætlicu wyrd, þa ic þæt wundor gefrægn, þæt se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes, þeof in þystro, þrymfæstne cwide ond þæs strangan staþol.

    A Digital Codex Mary Kate Hurley 2009

  • Me þæt þuhte wrætlicu wyrd, þa ic þæt wundor gefrægn, þæt se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes, þeof in þystro, þrymfæstne cwide ond þæs strangan staþol.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2009

  • They gied him my hand, but my heart was in the sea;

    Letter 234 2009

  • But the bairns were reasonably weel cared for in the way of air and exercise, and a very responsible youth heard them their Carritch, and gied them lessons in

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • YE gied the wild-fowl, the best end of our christening dinner, to a friend of yours, ye auld rudas!

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • His wife, who stood much in awe of him, durst not reply, but her mother bustled up to her support, with arms disposed as if they were about to be a-kimbo at the next reply. — “I gied them to an acquaintance of mine, Gibbie Girder; and what about it now?”

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • O?     I gied it till a sodger, a sodger, a sodger,

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • “No. I knew you lived in the hut, that he had gied it up to ye, and lodged out himself.”

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • He had gied up his mill for some time; and at last he got to Bristol, and took a passage to

    Wessex Tales 2006

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