dizen
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Ye think ye've a hard time o't, but there's waur things than sewin' jackets at thirteenpence the dizen.'
From The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. (Annie Shepherd) Swan
I dinna consort wi' shoplifters, an' idiots, an' suckin' bairns—wi' long nose, an' short nose, an' pug nose, an' seventeen Deuks o' Wellington, let alone a baker's dizen o' Queens.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
Scarborough's ower classy for t' likes o' Mary an' me; it's all reight for bettermy-bodies that likes to dizen theirselves out an' sook cigars on church parade.
From Tales of the Ridings by C. Vaughan
Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
To-morrow, when the masks shall fall That dizen Nature's carnival, The pure shall see by their own will, Which overflowing Love shall fill, 'T is not within the force of fate The fate-conjoined to separate.
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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