Laith

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Meaning that although some people are slow or "laith" to begin a thing, still, when they do commence, it is difficult to get them to leave off. ❋ Alexander Hislop (1836)

‘I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent,’ said my gudesire; ‘and if there be any one that is guilty, I have nae proof.’ ❋ Unknown (2008)

For further information you may contact laith[email protected] ❋ As'ad (2006)

The conference xuhich Sir Charles ivas put upon holding with the unhappy Clementina, on her being seized laith melancholy. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I was laith to make awa wi 'the old dowg, his like wasne atween this and ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

“I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent, ” said my gudesire; “and if there be anyone that is guilty, I have nae proof. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Says, ‘Lady, I’ll gang, tho’ to leave you I’m laith. ❋ Unknown (1910)

“I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent, ” said my gudesire; “and if there be any one that is guilty, I have nae proof. ❋ Unknown (1907)

I was laith to make awa wi 'the old dowg, his like wasne atween this and Thornhill -- but, ❋ William Patten (1902)

` ` Weel, sirs, I am laith to enter into deadly fued with you by spilling ony of your bluid, though Earnscliff hasna stopped to shed mine ❋ Unknown (1898)

` ` I ken weel, '' said the other, ` ` ye hae gentle bluid in your veins, and I wad be laith to hurt my ain kinsman. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Wullie was naething laith, and back they gaed the-gither. ❋ Edwin Sidney Hartland (1887)

"It seems a strange thing to ask a gift again, but I own I am laith to cut another." ❋ Unknown (1886)

"I would be laith to wish ony ill either to you or yours, sir," she said; "for I kenna how it is, but something aye comes after my words when I am ill-guided and speak ower fast." ❋ Unknown (1885)

"I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent," said my gudesire; ❋ Various (1878)

[Sidenote: Sea-Mouse Musculus is the cock of Balena.] ++Mus marin {us}, the see mouse, gothe out of the water, & there she laith her egges in a hole of the erthe, & couereth the eges, & goth her way & bydeth frome them xxx. dayes, and than commeth agayne and oncouereth them, & than there be yo {n} ges, and them she ledeth into ❋ Frederick James Furnivall (1867)

An 'syne he telled them hoo, laith to be fashous, he had gi'en orders till 's menyie to be all afore the mornin' brak, an 'wait at the neist cheenge hoose till he jined them. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

The maist o 'the lambs hed come, but the storms war laith to lea' the laps o 'the hills, an' lang efter it begud to be something like weather laicher doon, the sheep cudna be lippent oot to pick their bit mait for themsel's, but had to be keepit i 'the cot. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

For mysel 'I dinna preten' to ony opingon; but sae lang as the needcessity was the same, I wad be laith to think Providence wadna be consistent wi 'itsel'. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

It went on -- those betrothal vows, dictated while the two cold hands were linked, his with a kind of limp passiveness, hers, quaking, especially as, in the old use of York, he took her "for laither for fairer" -- laith being equivalent to loathly -- "till death us do part." ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

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