For luf Narsysus perysyt at the well; For luf thou stervyst most douchty Achill; Thesyus, for luf, hys fallow socht to hell; The snaw quhyte dow oft to the gray maik will.
Heir fyrst I saw apon the plesand greyn A fatale takyn, fowr horssis quhite as snaw Gnyppand gresys the large feildis on raw.
Auld Laddie is cleverer than mony a Christian, and will find something in thesnaw this night.
She kens Laddie didna bring us out in the snawfor naething.
They had not saild upon the sea A league but merely nine, When wind and weit and snaw and sleit Came blawing them behind.
But the snaw fa's not faster, Nor leaf disna part Sae sune frae the bough, as Faith fades in your heart.
Yes, whiter her bosom than snaw on the mountain, An' bonnie her face as the red rose can be.
Now the winter snaw 's fa'ing On bare holm and lea, And the cauld wind is strippin' Ilk leaf aff the tree.
If they did," Thomas said, "I daur say they had mair sinse than sit down to eat their dinner in the middle o' snaw if they had a house to tak it in.
Ye wad either be blawn ower the muir like a feather, or planted amang the snaw like Lot's wife.
I'll ken that to my cost Gien ye gar me tak the hill the nicht, Wi' snaw o' the back o' frost!
Half ower, she cam intil a lair O' snaw and slush and weet: The Lord hae mercy!
Aneth the snaw his heid was smorit, But his breist was maistly bare, And twixt his richt ban' and his hert Lay a lock o' gouden hair.
She turnt her face to the drivin snaw, To the snaw but and the weet; It claucht her snood, an' awa like a dud Her hair drave oot i' the sleet.
It's a lang road ower the hill, And the flauchterin snaw begud to fa' On the brig ayont the mill!
Ay," replied the Highlander, "but I keep neither snaw nor dollars in my sporran.
And syne he slippit aff his feet, and gaed awa up intil the air whaur the snaw comes frae.
She'll keep there as lang as the snaw keeps, and naething 'ill disturb her till the time comes to lay her awa!
Gien it cam on to snaw and blaw baith, we micht hae ill winnin there!
I were as whyte As evir the snaw lay on the dike Ild clead me braw[1035] and lady-like, And awa wi’ thee Ild gang!
The storm having increased to a terrible drift, the snaw had grown very deep, and the herds, wha lived about three miles sindry, hadna met for a' that time.
This time seven and thirty years, when you and I were married, there was a deeper, and a harder snaw baith, than this.
The haill country rase for ten miles round, on ane or twa good days that happened; but the snaw was still lying, and a' their looking was in vain.
There were limbs o' sheep hinging in a' directions, thesnaw was wedged sae firm.
At length the snaw gaed maistly away, and the weather turned fine, and I gaed out ane o' the days wi' my father to look for the body.
It was, indeed, quite impossible; for it had been such a break of snaw as had scarcely ever been seen.
Then when t’ snaw melted he fun t’ button, and that cooked Inman his goose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snaw" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
