brogans

Example Sentences

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He's a great man for gathering gowans and other sic trash.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

I never gathered gowans among the hills at home, but I seemed to see that pretty shy face looking up at me.”

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

He leapt on a horse, and she on another, Aye as the gowans grow gay; And they rode on to the greenwood together, The first morning in May.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

To Naseby he went in 1842, in company with Dr. Arnold, and 'plucked two gowans and a cowslip from the burial heaps of the slain'.

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry

This maiden had scarcely these words spoken, 10 Aye as the gowans grow gay; Till in at her window the elf-knight has luppen, The first morning in May.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various