One is therefore, from more than one point of view, left with a sort of Fakir self-mortification, undertaken and "dreed" neither to atone for anything, nor to propitiate any Power, nor really to benefit any man. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
By his own craft forsooth, dreed the work of the swimming; ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
"May the gude God o 'heaven sain you," he said "and ferd you for aye, for the braw deed ye hae dreed the day; tak 'this wee ring, gudemon, and tak' ye this ane, gudewife, and when ye look on this and on that, I rede ye render up are prayer to him abune for the weal o 'Charles Edward, your unfortunate prince." ❋ Various (N/A)
The sun slop'd from the southward; so dreed they their journey, ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
And the hatreds the doleful which erst they have dreed; ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
And withal she dreed her weird with a lofty courage, faced it full front with a high defiance, which must bespeak for ever the admiration at least of every generous spirit. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Tell him the times coming now, and the weirds dreed, and the wheels turning. ❋ Unknown (1917)
"He dreed his weird," said Mrs. McLane indifferently. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)
His face quivered before these blows, but all he said was, "I must dree my dreed." ❋ Unknown (1898)
Look at me: as doctor said the other day, I have dreed my weird; few and evil have been my days, like Jacob, but here ❋ Rosa Nouchette Carey (1874)
The twelve beautiful girls who received the gifts have since fulfilled their various destinies -- each has "dreed her weird," according to the solemn, sad old Scotch phrase. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)
Soon the king's head goes under, the weird is dreed at last. ❋ Jean Ingelow (1858)
Allah decreed for my son, he hath dreed and whatso He decreed to me I have endured. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
Whiles how dire was the dread she dreed in languishing heart-strings; ❋ Gaius Valerius Catullus (1855)
'I dunnot believe in any other life than this, in which she dreed such trouble, and had such never-ending care; and I cannot bear to think it were all a set o' chances, that might ha 'been altered wi' a breath o 'wind. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)
Debate: I intend to watch neither the debates as they are irrelevantl nor the Habs Boston game as I can't...… dreed ❋ Tim Harper (2011)
Tell him the time's coming now, and the weird's dreed, and the wheel's turning. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Now Lady Binks is in the same parlous case as the postmistress who dreed penance "for ante-nup," as Meg Dods says in an interrupted harangue, and we know that, to the author's mind, Clara ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
