And when he ended his verses, he wept with sore weeping, for indeed the ways were walled up before his face and death seemed to him better than dreeing life, and he walked on like a drunken man for stress of distraction, and stayed not till noontide, when he came to a little town and saw a plougher hard by, ploughing with a yoke of bulls. ❋ Unknown (2006)
As Janet Reid reminds us, it is not the time to start dreeing your weird. ❋ Editorial Anonymous (2008)
Again that far, weirdly dreeing cry, from realms immeasurable. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)
Now he was dreeing his weird, with such assistance as the chemist could afford. ❋ Unknown (1915)
He was dreeing the weird he had prepared for others. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
To be short, though it were called the Least Guard-chamber, it was a prison, and she was there dreeing her penance, as Dame Elinor would call the cruelty of her malice, which the chaplain, Dame Elinor's led captain, had ordained her for some sin which the twain had forged between them. ❋ Unknown (1895)
He did not mean to say, 'Take comfort, for other people are as badly off as you are,' but he meant to call to the remembrance of the solitary sufferer the thousands of his brethren who were 'dreeing the same weird' in the same uncongenial world. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
` ` It's my gudemither, my lord, '' said Margaret; ` ` but she canna see onybody e'enow --- Ohon! we're dreeing a sair weird --- we hae had a heavy dispensation! '' ❋ Unknown (1845)
I sympathize with you for the _dole_ which you are _dreeing_ under the inflictions of your honest proser. ❋ Unknown (1824)
"It's my gudemither, my lord," said Margaret; "but she canna see onybody e'enow -- Ohon! we're dreeing a sair weird -- we hae had a heavy dispensation!" ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
My lodging was up six pair of stairs, in a room of Widow Randie's, which I rented for half - a-crown a-week, coals included; and many a time, after putting out my candle, before stepping into my bed, I used to look out at the window, where I could see thousands and thousands of lamps, spreading for miles adown streets and through squares, where I did not know a living soul; and dreeing the awful and insignificant sense of being a lonely stranger in a foreign land. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
My lodging was up six pair of stairs, in a room of Widow Randie's, which I rented for half-a-crown a week, coals included; and many a time, after putting out my candle, before stepping into my bed, I used to look out at the window, where I could see thousands and thousands of lamps, spreading for miles adown streets and through squares, where I did not know a living soul; and dreeing the awful and insignificant sense of being a lonely stranger in a foreign land. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
