roose
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He'd gloat over a dollar like it was a charlotte roose, Huggins would.
From Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis
I spak' till him, an' tried to roose him, wi' ae thing after anither, bit I micht as weel hae spoken to the door-cheek, for a' the notice that he took.
From David Elginbrod by George MacDonald
Ye did richt tae resist him; it 'ill maybe roose the Glen tae mak a stand; he fair hands them in bondage.
From A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 1 by Ian Maclaren
Lips, like the roses, fresh moisten'd wi' dew; Say, maun I roose your een's pawkie scorning?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
And the frenche molinet, moralizinge the Romant of the roose in frenche, and turnynge it oute of verse into proese, writeth, Ha si i’eusse creu Theophraste, &c.
From Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by G. H. (George Henry) Kingsley
“Andrew Black was an auld freend o’ mine, an’ a big, stoot, angry man he is—kindly disposed, nae doot, when ye let him alane, but a perfe’t deevil incarnate when he’s roosed.
From Hunted and Harried by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
He roosed my een, sae bonnie blue, He roos’d my waist sae genty sma’, And ay my heart came to my mou’ When ne’er a body heard or saw.
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 Robert Burns
Hae na ye roosed my cheeks like the morning?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
"Sall, Domsie was roosed," Drumsheugh explained in the Muirtown inn next market.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren
Noo this roosed ma suspicions, for it's against reason for a man tae be dividing intae classes till the end o' his sermon.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren
