Citations:kyte

English citations of kyte

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• c. 1592 — Rob Stene, "Rob Stene's Dream":

  To cleith his bak, and fill his wame,

  Not sparing napir wyld, nor tame,

  Could not content his emptie kyte,

  Nor quenche his greidy appetyte.

• 1773 — Robert Fergusson, "To My Old Breeks":

  Sicklike some weary wight will fill

  His kyte wi' drogs frae doctor's bill,

• 1786 — Robert Burns, "Address to a Haggis":

  Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive:

  Deil tak the hindmaist, on they drive,

  Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve

  Are bent like drums;

• 1821 — John Galt, Annals of the Parish, M. Carey & Sons (1821), page 92:

  The beans swelled on the poor bird's stomach, and her crop bellied out like the kyte of a Glasgow magistrate, until it was just a sight to be seen with its head back on its shoulders.

• 1856 — Anonymous, The Chronicles of Gotham; or, The Facetious History of Official Proceedings, page 140:

  Yea, the trading of Gotham extendeth beyond the borders to the land of the Bull, where there are men of great fatness, and are bulged in the kyte by reason of much beef and ale.

• 2000 — James Robertson, The Fanatic, Fourth Estate (2000), →ISBN, page 96:

  Ye'd hope they were the lucky yins but I mind thinkin ye couldna get closer tae hell than a passage in the kyte o a plantation ship.