Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiered
Literary usage of Spiered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orkney and Shetland Miscellany of the Viking Club by Viking Society for Northern Research (1908)
"spiered da freen. "Awa tae join da kirk, bit aid Rade wadna lit me trou," waas
da answer. ... Och, he spiered me foo miny comman'ments that waas an" I ..."
2. The Rose, Or Affection's Gift by Emily Marshall (1843)
"spiered I, an they said it was .three pund ten. — Then I was sae wae, sae vera
wae 5 for the puir man, for the widower, to see greet sae, for he'd just lost ..."
3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"I've spiered her ance, I've spiered her twice, And still she says she canna; I'll
try her again, and that mak's thrice, And thrice, they say, is canny. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"I am Spes, quoth he, And spier after a knight, That took me a mandement Upon the
mount of Sinai. —Piers Ploughman. I spiered for my cousin ..."
5. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"And yet she lo'es me no that ill, If I believe her granny; 0 sure she must be
wond'rous nice, If she'll no hae me or Tammy. I've spiered her ance, ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... for a heap o' fowk spiered at Jean if he had ta'en his porridge as usual, and
she admitted he had. But the lassie was skeered hersel', and said it was a ..."
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