snaw

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I maist believe he's under special protection, if ever man was or oucht to be; an' he's no more feared at the storm, nor gin the snaw was angels' feathers flauchterin' oot o' their wings a' aboot him.

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  • "Rain and snaw, and frost and fog, and wind like newly-sharpened knives--a body doesna ken what's coming next," she said indignantly when she went to tell the doctor about it. —  Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls
  • Now this same nyght lernyng have I, To me, Moyses, he shewid his myght, And also to another one, Hely,[445] Where we stud on a hille on hyght As whyte as snaw was his body, His face was like the son for bright, No man on mold[446] was so mighty Grathly[447] durst loke agans[448] that light, And that same lighte here se I now Shynyng on us, certayn, Wherethrughe truly I trow That we shalle sone pas fro this payn Rybald. —  "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
  • 'Twas nat'ral eneuch; the laddie meant nae harm, but he wanted his sled afore the snaw was gone. —  St. Cuthbert's
  • It's coomin' on to snaw, an it'll snaw aw neet. —  The Case of Richard Meynell
  • I wud be surer but that I hae thoucht whiles I saw the muckle angels themsels gaein aboot, throu and throu the ondingin flauchter o' the snaw--no mony o' them, ye ken, but jist whiles ane and whiles anither, throu amo' the cauld feathers, gaein aye straught wi' their heids up, walkin comfortable, as gien they war at hame in't. —  Heather and Snow
 

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