Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaes
Literary usage of Slaes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most by Henry Troth Coates (1878)
"... And mak their shoon as black as slaes, Their hose as white as snaw; It's a'
to please my ain gudeman, For he's been long awa'. There's twa fat hens upo' ..."
2. The Heart of Oak Books by Kate Stephens (1895)
"... And Jock his Sunday coat ; And mak their shoon as black as slaes/ Their hose
as white as snaw, It's a' to please my ain gudeman, For he's been long awa. ..."
3. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"We've gather'd nuts, we've gather'd slaes, In that sweet rural spot. ... Roll among
your sunny braes, 'Mid hazel buds and blooming .slaes; ..."
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