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I've allus taen care that t' moors hae bin cropped fair; thou reckons thou'll feed mair yowes an' lambs on t' moors when thou's bigged thy walls; but thou weant, thou'll feed less.

From Tales of the Ridings by Vaughan, C.

Your beauty’s a flower, in the morning that blows, And withers the faster, the faster it grows; But the rapturous charm o’ the bonnie green knowes, Ilk spring they’re new deckit wi’ bonnie white yowes.

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

I am flattered at your adopting "Ca' the yowes to the knowes", as it was owing to me that it ever saw the light.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

And there I had three score o’ yowes, Och-on, och-on, och-rie!

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

Never is oot till he's let to bide wi' the yowes.

From Wild Animals I Have Known by Seton, Ernest Thompson