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Lexicographical Neighbors of Machree

Literary usage of Machree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"Och hone! widow machree. How altered your air. With that close cap you wear — 'Tis destroying your hair, Which should be flowing free: Be no longer a churl ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Och hone! widow machree. How altered your air, With that close cap yon wear — 'Tis destroying your hair, Which should be flowing free: Be no longer a churl ..."

3. The Household Book of Poetry by Charles Anderson Dana (1882)
"WIDOW machree, it 's no wonder you frown — Och hone ! widow machree ; Faith, it ruins your looks, that same dirty black gown — Och hone ! widow machree. ..."

4. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston (1900)
"Widow machree, Faith, it ruins your looks, that same dirty black gown, Och hone ! Widow machree. How altered your air With that close cap you wear, ..."

5. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)
"Widow machree! Widow machree, now the summer is come, Och hone! Widow machree, When everything smiles, should a beauty look glum? Och hone! Widow machree. ..."

6. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"Widow machree, Faith it ruins your looks, that same dirty black gown, Och hone ! Widow machree. How altered your air With that close cap you wear, ..."

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