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  • The King began, with sum countenances and speitches, to command silence and dashe him; bot he, insurging with graitter bauldnes and force of langage, buir out the mater sa, that the King was fean to tak it upe betwix tham with gentill termes and mirrie talk; saying, "They war bathe litle men, and thair hart was at thair mouthe!"'

    Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

  • Bow; and, going upe the streit, with bear heads and loud voices, sang to the praise of God, and testifeing of grait joy and consolation, the

    Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

  • An prostes upe londe singeþ. wane þe liȝt of daie springeþ.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • Edinburgh was so desolated, that when James Melville and others of the banished ministers passed through the streets on their return home, they found them empty, -- 'About alleavin hours he cam rydding in at the watergett of the Abbay, upe throw the Canow-gett, and red in at the

    Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

  • -- Once more the King argued: 'Men wald be that way [by a temporary appointment] disgraced, now sett upe and now sett by and cast down and sa discouragit from doing guid,' when Melville concluded: 'He that thinks it disgrace to be employed in what God's Kirk thinks guid, hes lytle grace in him; for grace is given to the lowlie.'

    Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

  • Alse fele unþeawes alse hade upe him ⁊ sennenn. al swa fendes he þer ȝemet. hīne to und {er} fó. ⁊ to don hīne into þiesternesse. oft a domes dȝéi alle godes fend simle fra {m} his ȝesecðe abroden bienn ⁊ hi [n] to hare lean ha {m} þe lange scel ȝeleste.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • In the opening upe of his text he was moderat the space of an halff houre; bot when he enterit to application he maid me sa to grew and tremble that I could nocht hald a pen to wryt.

    The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

  • I hard him discours, walking upe and doun in the auld Lady Marr's hand, of knawlage and ignorance, to my grait marvell and estonishment. '

    Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

  • Whether the idea of substitution be expressed by upe ` r emon depends on the context rather than on the force of the preposition.

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

  • There are two forms of expression here united; Paul says, to upe ` r pa'nta poiesai du'nameno, to him who is able to do more than, all things; and as though this were not enough, he adds, uper ekperissou hon aitou'metha e ` nooumen, exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think.

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

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