Citations:maun

English citations of maun

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• 1840, Mary Botham Howitt, Hope On, Hope Ever, Or, The Boyhood of Felix Law, page 53:

  "O Maister!" exclaimed Alice, with tears in her eyes, “ye maun think nought at it. […] I sal niver forgive mysel!"

• 1848, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton, page 45:

  So father sent George first (you know George, well enough, Mary), and then work was scarce out toward Burton, where we lived, and father said I maun try and get a place . And George wrote as how wages were far higher in Manchester […]

• 1860, James Kay-Shuttleworth, Scarsdale: Or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border, Thirty Years Ago, page 103:

  "Pure Giles, he maun goo his aen gate, pure mon, sure he connot chuse bur be welly besoide hissel."

• 1860, J. P. Robson, The Song of Solomon in the Northumberland Dialect, page 14:

  […] thoo, O Solomon, maun hev a thoosan'; an' them 'it farms the froot on't twe hundort.

Scots or Cumberlandish?

• 1795, A Select Collection of original Scotish Airs for the Voice, edited by George Thomson, set 1, page 15:

  And oh ! what a heart was that to lose; But I maun no repine.

• 1873, Henry Lonsdale, The Worthies of Cumberland [...], page 94:

  And oh ! what a heart was that to lose; But I maun no repine.

may, might

• 1890, Clare, Love of Lass, I, 30:

  Ay, lads, ye maun weel luik skeered.

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Scots citations of maun

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• 1721, Ramsay, Poems, 19:

  Maun we be forced thy skill to tine?

• 1787, Taylor, Poems 13:

  A'... Maun late or soon submit to fate.

• 1844, Cross, Disruption, ii:

  A minister ye maun be.

• 1886, Haliburton, Horace, 2:

  A' the warld an' his wife / Maun lie at ae great level.

• 1891, Barrie, Minister, xxx:

  I maun bide ahint.

• 1892, Ballymena Obsserver:

  If I maun dae't A can dae't.

• 1844-1896, Wesley Guard Lyttle, Paddy McQuillan, 13:

  Ye maun wait till ye're a Mason.