Lexicographical Neighbors of Atweel
Literary usage of Atweel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"And there's meal, and there's maut, and there's whisky galore— And this warld
wad serve me for an Eden atweel, An it were na for fear o' the Meikle Black ..."
2. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"... and the streams were a" clear, And the bowers were in blossom a' through the
lang year— Our ain warld wad serve me for an Eden atweel, An it were ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... And the bowers were in blossom a' through the lang year—Our ain warld wad
serve me for an Eden atweel, Aft it werena for fear o' the Meikle Black Deil. ..."
4. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"But peace attune thy gentle soul to rest, atweel [well ! In truth !]. Are they
a' Johny's? Eh ! atweel no : To Miss Graham. ..."
5. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1866)
"... atweel it is my bukes," Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude. ... atweel it
is my peit," Quo' the wee boy, &c. " Wha's aucht they sheep ? ..."
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