snaps

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But my white pow, nae kindly thowe Shall melt the snaws of Age; My trunk of eild, but buss or beild, Sinks in Time's wintry rage.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Loud blaw the frosty breezes, The snaws the mountains cover; Like winter on me seizes, Since my young Highland rover Far wanders nations over.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

The notion that an abundance of haws betokens a hard winter is still much credited, and has given rise to the familiar Scotch proverb:—   "Mony haws,   Mony snaws."

From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)

Duan First^1 The sun had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To kail-yards green, While faithless snaws ilk step betray Whare she has been.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

I. Loud blaw the frosty breezes, The snaws the mountains cover; Like winter on me seizes, Since my young Highland rover Far wanders nations over.

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