stound

• And aye the stound is birkin lear Where sconnered yowies wheeped yestreen, The creeshie rax wi' skelpin' kaes Nae mair the howdie bicker whangs, Nor weanies in their wee bit claes Glour light as lammies wi' their sangs Yet leeze me on my bonny byke My drappie aiblins blinks the noo, An' leesome luve has lapt the dyke Forgatherin' just a wee bit fou. —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• Up in a sudden burning flares The dark tent of nature pitched about our souls; And light, like a stound of golden din, A shadowless light like weather of infinite plains, Light not narrowed into place, Amazes the naked nerves of the soul; And like the pouring of immortal airs Out of a flowery season, Over us blows the inordinate desire Ah, who from Hell did the wisdom bring That would make life a formal thing? —  Emblems Of Love
• [17] 'A stound:' a while. —  Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
• She replied, "Hearkening and obedience," and chanted these two couplets It proves my price o' er all the flowers that I * Seek you each year, yet stay but little stound: And high my vaunt I m dyed by my lord * Whom Allah made the best e'er trod on ground. —  Arabian nights. English
• 173. O most noble of men in this time and stound, iv. —  Arabian nights. English

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