maud

Example Sentences

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Here! roll thee in my maud, lad, and lay thee down on this sheltered side of this bit of rock. 

From The Half-Brothers by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

There was: a figure swathed in an ulster, a maud over the ulster, and a high hat on the top of all.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold

"Yes; go on, you; I coom py undt py; I dtink t'ere iss vun maud come into dot gardten, vhat I haf not pefore seen since more as acht years, alreadty!"

From Strong Hearts by Cable, George Washington

She put a new candle in her lantern; she changed her shawl for a maud, and leaving the door on latch, she sallied out.

From Half a Life-Time Ago by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

As Lockhart truly says, Hogg "was the most extraordinary man that ever wore the maud of a shepherd."

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew