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Definition of Corbies
1. corby [n] - See also: corby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corbies
Literary usage of Corbies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"13 THE TWA corbies' As I was walking all alane, I heard two corbies making a
mane; The tane unto the t" other say, " Where sail we gang and dine to-day ? ..."
2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1912)
"As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto
the t'other say, ' Where sail we gang and dine to day ? ..."
3. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"40 Half o'er, half o'er to Aberdour, Its fifty fathom deep, And there lies guid
Sir Patrick Spens, Wi' the Scots lords at his feet. THE TWA corbies • As I ..."
4. An Introduction to Poetry by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty (1922)
"THE TWA corbies As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane;
The tane unto the t'ither say, "Where sail we gang and dine to-day? ..."
5. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1866)
"As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto
the t'other say, "Where sall we gang and dine to-day? ..."
6. Ballad Book by Katharine Lee Bates (1890)
"THE TWA corbies. As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a maen;
The tane into the t'ither did say, " Whaur shall we gang and dine the day ? ..."
7. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"Sc. Гг. corbies dinna pick oot corbies' een, г.л, harm corbies (crows) and clergy
are kittle shot (hard each other. ..."
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