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It's called Japes for Owre Tymes, and it features one comic per day translated into Middle English.
New blog! New blog! 2008
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It's called Japes for Owre Tymes, and it features one comic per day translated into Middle English.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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We'll be happy a 'thegither owre a wee drappie o't. cho: Owre a wee drappie o't, owre a wee drappie o't,
A Wee Drappie O't 1953
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Owre the kirkyard o 'Denholm, last simmer sae green.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, [bashful, cringe]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Allerton in the Border country -- the scion of a reputable stock, sometime impoverished by gambling in the times of the Regent, and before that with whistling "Owre the water to Charlie"; but now, by the opening-up of the sea-coal pits, again gathering in the canny siller as none of the
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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Owre muckle thinking changeth the mind, '-- her face and voice altered.
Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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_Owre-hip_, striking with a forehammer by bringing it with a swing over the hip.
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/She's nae mair ours --/Owre the Kirk-style/And away wi 'her! "
John Paterson's Mare 1862
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"'Owre mony impose upon ye, my man,' quoth she; 'and I hope naebody has been doing it the night, for I never saw ye come hame in this key, but that somebody had got ye to do something that ye was to repent afterwards.'
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819
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