agee

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Iverything had gone agee that day: butter wouldn't coom, Snowball had kicked ower the pail while I was milking her, and, atop o' all that, there was grandfather wi' his fratching ways.

From More Tales of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William

But what thyng now is more miserable then is agee?

From A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure by Erasmus, Desiderius

He worked here and he worked there, and turned his hand to this and to that, but it always went agee, and 't was all Yallery Brown's doing.

From More English Fairy Tales by Batten, John Dickson

I maun gang an' get hame, my sweet Jessie, For fear some young laird o' degree May come roun' on his fine sleekit bawsy, An' ding a' my prospects agee.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Here is one: 'Le 29 de Janvier, 1723-4, morut le Sieur Authonoine Trabue, agee danviron sinquaint six a sept annees fut en terree le 30 du meme moy.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various