Citations:browden

English citations of browden

• 1783, Samuel Rutherford, Letters of Samuel Rutherford:

  We are fools to be brouden and fond of a pawn in the loof of our hand: living on trust by faith may well content us.

• 1938, Alexander Rose, The Scottish Works of Alexander Rose, page 84:

  Their browden breasts that night took little sleep, An' turs'd again as soon's the day did peep.

Scots citations of browden

• 1597, Alexander Montgomery, The Cherrie and the Slae:

  As scho delyts into the low, Sae was I browdin of my bow, Als ignorant as scho.

• 1780, Allan Ramsay, Poems on Several Occasions - Volume 1, page 64:

  His body was with blood a' browden, He grain'd like ' ony ghaist;

• 1946, Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Scottish Pageant: 55 B.C.-A.D. 1513, page 155:

  Thair best and browden bricht baneris And hors hewit on seir maneiris

• 1987, Priscilla J. Bawcutt, Felicity Riddy, Thomas Crawford, Longer Scottish Poems: 1650-1830, page 111:

  The millart never notic'd Tam, Sae browden'd he the ba', He rumblid rudely like a ram, Dang o'er whiles ane, whiles twa: