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You gied me your hand, while your heart it was sore.
Letter 236 2009
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Me þæt þuhte wrætlicu wyrd, þa ic þæt wundor gefrægn, þæt se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes, þeof in þystro, þrymfæstne cwide ond þæs strangan staþol.
A Digital Codex Mary Kate Hurley 2009
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Me þæt þuhte wrætlicu wyrd, þa ic þæt wundor gefrægn, þæt se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes, þeof in þystro, þrymfæstne cwide ond þæs strangan staþol.
Archive 2009-02-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2009
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They gied him my hand, but my heart was in the sea;
Letter 234 2009
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But the bairns were reasonably weel cared for in the way of air and exercise, and a very responsible youth heard them their Carritch, and gied them lessons in
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YE gied the wild-fowl, the best end of our christening dinner, to a friend of yours, ye auld rudas!
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His wife, who stood much in awe of him, durst not reply, but her mother bustled up to her support, with arms disposed as if they were about to be a-kimbo at the next reply. — “I gied them to an acquaintance of mine, Gibbie Girder; and what about it now?”
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O? I gied it till a sodger, a sodger, a sodger,
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“No. I knew you lived in the hut, that he had gied it up to ye, and lodged out himself.”
The Woodlanders 2006
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He had gied up his mill for some time; and at last he got to Bristol, and took a passage to
Wessex Tales 2006
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