Or owld Ireland," chimed in a sailor at the neighbouring table.
It's hard work the writin' of it cost her too--poor owld sowl!
There's my owld uncle Macgrath gone to his long home, an' he was the support o' me grandmother.
The letter is from me owld grandmother, an' she's better to me than a dozen wives rowled into wan.
As much as you like,' says Owld Nick; 'how much will you have?
So the colonel went downstairs, and the owld fellow worked away as busy as a nailer, shovellin' in the guineas by hundherds and thousands.
With all my heart,' says the waiver, who thought he might as well exchange the miller's owldgarron for a betther.
Your will is my pleasure,' says the owld chap, and away he wint; and the colonel thought he had nicked Owld Nick at last, and wint to bed quite aisy in his mind.
But when the colonel heered it he was more throubled than any, of coorse, and began to conthrive what else he could think iv to keep himself out iv the claws of the owld one.
I must set down myself, Tib; it be a var waay vor my owld legs up vro' Islip.
The haythens who lived out here didn't know any betther, and the prastes were a bad lot, so they used to worship the owld gintleman, and give him a prisoner ivery now and then cut up aloive.
The little wan wid the stone picture of the owld gintleman sitting over the door.
Only there's more ways of killing a cat than hanging him, as the praste said when he minded his owld brogues wid a glue-pot.
Och, and I looked up thin to ask a blessing on meself before I wint up in such a hurry that I hadn't time to confess; and bedad there was the owld gintleman expanding his mouth into the widest grin I iver saw in me life!
Ye needn't do that, sor, for she was a veryowld boat, and not safe for a journey home.
But nobody came from inside the magazine, and the owld gintleman grinned more and more, and seemed to rowl his oies; and I belave he wanted to hear the owld place go up.
Sure, sor, and it's a wondherful owld place this, and there must have been some strange games carried on.
Then the donkey began to speak and told him, and told him he was wicked to serve him in that ere style, and a angel come down and took sides with the donkey and preached a sarmint to the owld gentleman and they all went away jolly.
Arrah, ladies and jintlemen, do jist turn your swate little eyes upon me whilst I play for your iddifications the last illigant tune which my owld grandmother taught me.
Ye croakingowld divil, is that the tune you taught your son?
Owld the Fort fer Hi am comin,'" --By Thy graice we will.
You should 'a seen the owld josser's feaches wnoy towld im.
Woy, owld Lind sends me in to Conly to cam in to him into the board-room.
Let's drink to absent friends an' owld Ireland," cried Larry, filling his cup and pushing the kettle round.
Do it fer his mether's sake, th' scand'lous owld rake he is.
But theowld black witch keeped 'es promise to un, an' tayched un all that 'a wanted to knaw.
The owld White Harse wants zettin to rights, And the Squire hev promised good cheer, Zo we'll gee un a scrape to kip un in zhape, And a'll last for many a year.
Here's Barney could knock it off wid his owld musket.
Whats wus is that my owld master was drownded in wan, or out o wan, but shure its All the Saim.
Think ov the words in the coppie book weev writ so often together at owld makmahons skool, eevil emunishakens Krupt yer maners, i misrember it, but ye no wot id be sayin' to ye.
Didn't I say avore we left theowld counthry that no good would come of it?
They came at us shouting bad language, and calling us all the blayguards they could lay their tongues to; and then one avil-looking owld reprobate ups wid a shtone and throws it at me.
He's welkim to me owld shirt; for it was that tindher that I had to put on me kid gloves to wash it, for fear it should come to pieces, Masther Dick.
I'm thinking I'd rather go sthraight home to my poor owld mother's cabin, and slape there dacent like, wid nothing worse in it than the poor owld pig.
Shure an' it's one of the masther's owld boots I threw away wid me own hands this morning, because it hadn't a bit more wear in it.
It isn't being a coward, it's thinking av my poor mother, and taking care of meself for the poor owld sowl's sake.
Prince was a lump of a brown tarrier I had one time, and faith I kicked the toes out o' me owld boots on him before I had the owld lady composed!
The wing of the Bianconi had caught the wing of the smaller car, flinging Owld Bocock's mare on her side and throwing her freight headlong on top of her, the heap being surmounted by the roulette table.
I was scarcely surprised when I was informed that the melancholy white animal in the shafts of the leading car was Owld Bocock's much-enduring steeplechaser.
Clancy has the other bet out, and the divil such leatherin' and beltin' of owld Bocock's mare ever you seen as what's in it!
Me owld eyes are that dim, I can't make it out in the gloamin'.
Kiss yer owld mother, honey, an' be her own b'y again!
That he'd make a man uv him that should be a pride an' a support to the owld age uv me, an' a blissin' to the day I med up my mind to eddicate him.
The owld felly remimbered all that passed betune Kathleen an’ the blessed saint, an’ he knewn how hard it was fur Saint Kevin to forgit her, so he thought he’d put him in a fix.
Owld Moll," as she was known, was a power in the parish, and her help was sought in many emergencies.
God plaise I may niver live here long enough to forgit owld Ireland, the Gim of the Sea.
She was about the same age as Kitty, and the owld woman took her out of kindness and brought them up together.
Yees might have done that, as long as ye plaised, fur me sconce got used to being cracked at the fairs in the owld country.
Twas that owld Mahogany copperskin; but did I iver 'xpact he was up to sich a trick and he would niver have l'aved me a-fishing.
The owld fellow must have been expecting him, for before he could knock, he opened the door and let him in.
They're like the hounds in the owld country, barring they go on two legs an' don't stick their noses in the ground, nor howl whin they git on trail.
Who knows but Master Harvey has gone to the village, and Miss Cora stands in the door this minute, 'xpacting this owld spalpaan?
If it's the owld pike's boy, yandher's the young wan too.
I wondher now," said he, "if the owld chap manes to set fire to their town!
A long toime ago, owld Oireland was very badly infisted wid thim craythers.
Nayther snake nor toad in owld Oireland,--nayther could live for a single hour, if ye plants them thare.
Well, yer honor, Tim had manny frinds in the house, and as he was an owld boordher, we thought to howld a wake over his body.
I told yer honor how it would be wid ye; here I haven't said more nor five words before yer at yer owld thricks again.
He did not call the officer a liar after he had heard him give his evidence, nor tell the judge that he was an 'owld tief.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owld" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
