10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNSONSY»
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The English dialect dictionary
Yks. [ano'nsL] 1. Unlucky, unfortunate; ominous, fatal, causing ill-luck or
misfortune. See Sonsy, adj.l Se. The unsonsy fish gets the unlucky bait, RAMSAY
Prev. (1737). Elg.Wae betidc th'unsonsy rung! lt met his luekless niz, COUPER
Pushy ...
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Early Modern Northern English Lexis: A Literary Corpus-based ...
Negative prefix unite cases recorded - unbirs'd 'unbruised', ungain 'not direct',
unsonsy 'unlucky' - show that the OE-derived affix kept its primitive negative force
to expand the meaning of the base it attached to. According to Jurado (2003: ...
Javier Ruano-García,
2010
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Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs
Eng: a lean dog getsnothing butfleas an unlucky manwould bedrowned in a
teacup flies are busiest about lean horses flies bite none but lean and feeble
oxen fortune ne«er turns the key to the poor Scots: the unsonsy fish aye gets the
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4
Miscellaneous Works of that celebrated Scotch poet, Allan ...
... 'flaw v A lowan Coal frae Heav'ns high Ha" ;' ' ' t' ' ctss ' ' * Unsonsy Unsonsy Thit
't, which Feavers brought In Bikes, which Fowk like . ii 278 J.
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Waverley Novels: Waverley
But it will be past sunset afore I get back frae the Captain's, and at these unsonsy
hours the glen has a bad name — there's something no that canny about auld
Janet Gel- latley. The laird he'll no believe thae things, but he was aye ower rash
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Douglas, a tragedy ... Reduced to Scottish rhyme, chiefly in ...
Lang had he worn the sword, au' travel'd far, In that unsonsy job the holy war,
Whare mad 'Godfredo's expedition sped, Wi' cloister'd hermit Peter at their head. '
Twas there he learn'd the trade 0' knappin' crowns, An' there fand out the airt 0' ...
John Home, George Smith,
1824
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Waverley Or 'tis Sixty Years Since: In Four Volumes. 4
But it will be past sunset afore I get back frae the Captain's, and at these unsonsy
hours the glen has a bad name— there's something no that canny about auld
Janet Gellatley. The laird he'll no believe thae things, but he was aye ower rash ...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq
A voice sounded from within, and he held it most prudent to listen before he
advanced. , “VVha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain , thou ?" said an
old woman, apparently in great indignation. He heard Davie Gellatley, in answer,
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A collection of farces and other afterpieces: Which are ...
When I was a laddie, I was sac daft to get the ill wull 0' a' my kin, by the disgrace I
had brought upo' the Mackintoshes, by pitting myself prentice till a cankert auld
carle 0' a sword-slipper in Aberdeen, whase bony daughter I was so unsonsy as
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The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy. With a Life and ...
... Rins withershins about the hemlock low ; And seven times does her pray'rs
backward pray, Till Plotcock comes wi' lumps o' Lapland clay, Mixt wi' the venom
o' black taids and snakes : O' this unsonsy pictures aft she makes O' ony ane she
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