raree show
Example Sentences
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What's past is not to come, with a hey, with a hey, Now safe is David's bum, with a ho; Then hey for Oxford ho, Strong government, raree show, With a hey, &c.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Help Cooper, Hughs, and Snow, with a hey, with a hey, To pull down raree show, with a ho: So, so, the gyant's down, Let's masters out of pound, With a hey, &c.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
She wanted to see what sort of raree show an author was; and to let him know, that though Dunbar was but a little town, yet it was not destitute of people of parts.
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
Such thoughts, steady our faith; yet there will rise Some natural tears into the calmest eyes— Which gaze where forest princes haughty go, Made for a gaping crowd a raree show.
From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Fuller, Margaret
"Am I a raree show to be peeped at and watched and spied upon?"
From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Farnol, Jeffery
