If ye sell your purse to your wife, gie her your breeks to the bargain.
It's a laddie from the post, and he winna gie up the letter unless you pay him sevenpence for postage dues and a penny for himself!
O father, gie me your blessing--I dare not go till ye bless me.
Some folk tell me he canna gie mercy in cases of mur in cases like hers.
Now turn the Psalms of David ower, And lilt wi' holy clangor; Of double verse come gie us four, And skirl up the Bangor.
Gie owre your house, ye ladie fair, Gie owre your house to me; Or I sail burn yoursell therein, But and your babies three.
Gie corn to my horse, mither; Gie meat unto my man; For I maun gang to Margaret's bower, Before the night comes on.
Now haud your tongue, bonnie Lizie; Ye never sall rue for me; Gie me but your luve for my ain luve, It is a' that your tocher will be.
True Thomas he said, "A gudely gift ye wad gie to me!
I winna gie owre, ye false Gordon, To nae sic traitor as thee; And if ye burn my ain dear babes, My lord sall mak' ye dree!
Ye'll gie the third to the minstrel That's harping in the ha', And he'll play gude luck to the bonny boy That comes frae the greenwood shaw.
O Wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us!
And gie to me my bigonet, My bishop's satin gown; For I maun tell the baillie's wife That Colin's in the town.
Auld John may dee a beggar in a hay barn, or at the back of a dike, but he sall aye be master o' his ain thoughts an' gie them vent or no, as he likes.
Tak them again, an' gie them to wha you will, and muckle gude may he get o' them.
Lay them by, lay them by, an' gie the poor woman her spoons again.
Give me your green mantle, fair maid, Give me your maidenhead; Gif ye winna gie me your green mantle, Give me your maidenhead!
When within the hall he came, He jooked and couch'd out ower his tree: "If ye be lady of this hall, Some of your good bountith gie me.
And I'll gie him to his dowry, Full fifty ploughs of land.
Houts, mother, haud your tongue; it is needless to heed your dreams, for ye never gieower dreaming about somebody.
Accordingly she made no promises to her grandmother, but only remarked, that "it was a pity no to gie the cooper a chance o' conversion, honest man.
If ye canna clip the ewe, man, gie me her, and I'll tak her to anither; for I canna bide to see ye sae sair put about.
We hae aye trusted in the Lord yet, and he has never forsaken us, nor will he yet gie the Wicked One power ower us or ours.
Because if ye do, I'll maybe gie you enough o' that.
I'll gie five-and-twenty shillings for her," cried Adamson.
But could you think o' naething else to gie a body wha likes as weel to be paid aff-hand as to gie credit?
Come ower in time, before billy Harry come hame again; and let your visit be in timeous hours, else I'll gie you the back of the door to keep.
I gie ye license to speak freely, and, by our saul, ye do not let the privilege become lost non utendo--it will suffer no negative prescription in your hands.
But ye are just like ither folks, gie ye an inch and ye take an ell.
Keep them in gage, till I gie ye back the siller out of the next subsidy.
Thou speakest against my honour and me, Unless thou gie me thy trowth and thy hand, Thou'lt steal frae nane but whae sta' frae thee.
And a brave gift I'll gie to thee-- "All between heir and Newcastle town "Sall pay their yeirly rent to thee.
If th' laud wants a drap o' whusky, Ah'll gie ye some for him.
Let the myde take an' gie ye a clean plate, Captun--the bairns have dirtied the yin you 'ave!
Keep his feet warrm and dinna gie him a lot of sweet trash to eat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
