Peggy Coutts is a very bonnie bride, And Drum is a wealthy laddie, 50 But he micht hae chosen a hier match, Than onie shepherd's lassie.
If I had kent what I ken now, That love it was sae ill to win, I should ne'er hae wet my cherry cheek For onie man or woman's son.
Gif onie ladie wad borrow me 5 Out into this prison strang, I wad make her a ladie o' hie degree, For I am a gret lard in fair Scotland.
O hae ye gotonie lands," she says, "Or castles in your ain countrie?
I wald nevir," said Lethingtoun, "heir you or onie uther call that in doubt.
But," said Lethingtoun, "whair evir find ye onie of the Propheitis so to haif pray it?
For gif I soulde see hir begin at that end, yea, gif I soulde suspect onie sik thing in hir, I soulde be also far fordwarte in that argument as ye or onie uther within this Realme: Bot thair is nocht sik ane thing.
That sik indeid sould haisard oniefarder than these godlie men willis thame, I can nocht haistellie be of counsell.
But yit," said Lethingtoun, "why pray ye nocht for hir without moving onie doute?
Laird of Lethingtoune haif power to controle us: or sall the presence of ane woman caus us to offend God, and to dampne ane innocent aganis oure conscience for plesour of onie creatour?
Quhair will ye find," said Lethingtoun, "that onie of the Propheittis did so intreat Kingis and Quenis, reuleris or magistratis?
And we'll never gang doun to the brume onie mair 2 He's taen his sister doun to her father's deer park, Wi his yew-tree bow and arrows fast slung to his back.
Are na ye oure young a may Wi onie young man doun to lie?
O hae ye got onie lands,' she says, 'Or castles in your ain countrie?
Four and twenty ladies fair Were playing at the chess, And out then cam the fair Janet, As green as onie glass.
Atweel, Sire, an' I'll be pleasit to answer onie sic question, gin ye please to tell me the words.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "onie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.