dizen

Example Sentences

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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

What is the worth o' anything to me, puir auld deevil, that ha' no half a dizen years to live at the furthest.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas

Scarborough's ower classy for t' likes o' Mary an' me; it's all reight for bettermy-bodies that likes to dizen theirselves out an' sook cigars on church parade.

From Tales of the Ridings by Vaughan, C.

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

Ye had five cogs, a dizen o' bickers, twa dizen o' piggins, three bowies, four cream dishes, and twa ladles, besides the wooden spoons that I packed up mysel.

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