dizen

Example Sentences

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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 Hughes, Thomas

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 Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

O man," said he to Robin, "I wad pay ye half a dizen bottles o' wine wi' as great cheerfu'ness as I raise this glass to my lips.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various

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 Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)