sainted
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When I was young, o' three years old, Muckle was made o' me; My stepmither put on my claithes, 100 An' ill, ill, sained she me.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
The truth I'll tell to thee, Janet, A word I winna lie; I was ta'en to the good church-door, And sained as well as thee.
From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee
And you must bring the holy priest, That I may sained be, For I have lived a roving life Fifty years under the greenwood tree.
From Ban and Arriere Ban by Lang, Andrew
And you must bring the holy priestThat I may sained be;For I have lived a roving lifeFifty years under the greenwood tree.
From Ballads, Lyrics, and Poems of Old France by Lang, Andrew
I had on a pair of old breeches that had been sained in and dried so often they was about half rotten.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
