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And greene willow rowes which Hiblae bees doo rejoice in,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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PF, in the course of his troubadouresque wanderings, has washed up for the night here in Peekskill, where he has brought to my attention the remarkable Douglas Young translations from Greek into Scots, in particular his translation of The Frogs which he called The Puddocks by Aristophanes:Aeschylus will heave his verses, ruit and word, and gar them flee, breenge, and skail the monie stourbaths whaur he rowes his poesie.
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Who strait brings out his Almadie and rowes to vs a maine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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When all have been sent to different places around, he who is "it" removes the bandage from his eyes; and when all are ready he gives the call -- "Het rowes and butter cakes!" when all rush back to the spot whence despatched.
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford
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And greene willow rowes which Hiblae bees doo rejoice in,
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Now for the orderly placing of your trées, you shall vnderstand that your Plumbe-trées (which are as it were a fence or guard about your great quarters) would be placed in rowes one by one, aboue fiue foote distance one from another, round about each skirt of euery alley: your
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Euerie one of these according to their duties, tooke theyr places vppon the checkers of the pauement, that is, sixteene in golde of one side in two rowes, and sixteene in siluer of the contrarie side.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Fast ioyning to which order or set rowes of pillars, there grew ould plaine trees, wylde Oliues, Pine apple, and pricking brambles.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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In mony a torrent down the snaw-broo rowes; [melted snow rolls]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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On either hand did sit a young wench of 16 or 18 yeares; and along on each side the house, two rowes of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads and shoulders painted red; many of their heads bedecked with the white downe of Birds; but every one with something; and a great chayne of white beads about their necks.
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896
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