10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANTILY»
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cantily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Poems, Songs and Ballads
Tho' selfish Greed an' crabbit Spleen Stand gloomy glowerin' side by side ; Yet
cantily I '11 play a spring, An' sing my sang whate'er betide ! This world 's nae
weary bed o' thorns, For a' the dolefu' moan that 's made ; Yon sun that shines on
...
James Smith (printer.),
1869
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From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of ...
Hence cantily adv Cheerfully, with liveliness. [apparently from Low German/Dutch
, cf modern Dutch kant 'neat, clever'; OED canty 'cheerful, lively, gladsome' 1724-
>, Scottish and northern dialect; SND canty 'lively, cheerful, pleasant' 1721- ...
Sac merrily, sac cantily, see cheerily I ride, Oh ! the hurrying clouds in the wintry
shy Not half so quickly glide. Then, when I'm on their message bound, I heed not
bog or briar ; Though a chain of weight were round me wound, My limbs would ...
Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury,
1822
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The English dialect dictionary
Ruth. (jam) (a) Abd. Sae blyth and cantily they sing, SHIRREFS Poems (1190)
230. Km. Cantin they pass'd the manse, An cantin the kirk, Gnan'r Lays (1334) 10.
Ayr. [She] joked With me real cantily, Jonss'rou Glmbacleie (1339) 131; Made the
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The Monthly Magazine: Or, British Register ...
But to take from an emaciated old man, hent under the weight of years, any part
os that vital fluid, with which he is so l'cantily provided, is an act that would never
be rafhly committed by any discerning or intelligent practitioner. _Fewer murders
...
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The Asiatic Annual Register Or a View of the History of ...
The whole of the B'Jllilf country, he (aid, was an entire wilderncfs, which was very
{cantily inhabited by the wild Goands, who are in a flute of ll'lttlfCZ that, in fome
parts, 1 zhould find no vrater, but at very long dit'tanccs ; and that in reality I ...
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Annals of the Parish; or, the Chronicles of Dalmailing; ...
... knowledge, for a woman, of geography and history; so that when her mother
was busy with the wearyful'booming wheel, she entertained me sometimes with a
tune, and sometimes with her tongue, which made the winter nights fly cantily by.
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The American Monthly Magazine
They rest the natural character of Elizabeth almost entirely upon her putative
envy of the personal charms so largely shared by Mary and so cantily given to
Elizabeth. Something may possibly be attributed to a sexual characteristic, but
nothing ...
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
1830
O then what happy days wad be, Whan nane wad be opprest; Nor man wi' man
wad disagree, But a' wad be at rest? ' i Then cantily, an' daintily, I'd smotherjvillain
pride; Superiors, inferiors Sudna the peace divide.- _ ÞOEMS. '57 Ill. Yet true it ...
David Sillar, Robert Burns,
1789
... the gracious sunshine, when a' the bit bonny burdies are singing sae cantily,
and stopping for half a minute at a time, noo and than, to set richt wi' their bills a
feather that's got rumpled by sport or spray — when the bees are at wark, ...
John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier,
1855
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CANTILY»
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