bough

Example Sentences

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He lets Mary Van- brugh mock his hero throughout with snatches from the song of Abdul, the Bulbul Emir.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are too many of them, and the brugh is too packed, leaving nowhere to run.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Then it was that I considered the magnitude of that strait in which they of the s�dh had had me, and away from the brugh I came running to seek thee, holy Patrick.’

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans

And muckle wame, In some bit brugh to represent A bailie’s name?

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

“Out of yonder brugh chequered with the many lights hard by you here.”

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans