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Scholars explain its origin from the old German word grunen or greinen (to mourn), which was later corrupted into grun (green).
An Overview - Planning the Menu for Holy Week jenmack 2009
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Janjaweed malitia a hunt dem dung raping an a killing village bun dung to de grun man ina numba ten an oval office
More “Political Poetry” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Scholars explain its origin from the old German word grunen or greinen (to mourn), which was later corrupted into grun (green).
Archive 2009-04-01 Eileen 2009
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They just sink intae the grun, or they just bend or kinna roll roon.
Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997
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His face tells of want and toil; he has slung a shabby old basket over his shoulders, in which he carries his load, and, with a bunch in his hand, he saunters along the street, proclaiming his trade, "Grun-sel, grun-sel, grun-sel!"
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I wonner the Lord disna open the grun 'to swallow the half o' the folk noo-a-days; for I never heard sic swearin '
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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Wi 'a sab and a curse fell his length on the grun'.
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Oh the glaur it wis fylin 'and crieshin' the grun ',
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"Wer't nae for thy girning face I would knock the big, winnow the corn, and grun the meal!"
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887
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'Ay, ay; it's the same auld mill, an' I wat it grun '(ground) bonny meal.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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