A man in a swither is a man half absent, as poor a fighter as he is indifferent a lover; the enemy and the girl will escape him ere he has throttled the doubt at his heart There's one test to my mind for all the enterprises of man -- are they well contrived and carried to a good conclusion? ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
They found the office in a "swither," as Harry said, over the revelations of fraud that were coming to light every day -- book-keeper, clerk, and timber-checker having all been in conspiracy to defraud the company. ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)
The wind smells of the Wear, sprays rain on the wall and growls with an insistent swither. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Oh, they'll shift and swither and plot, and ye'll be approached (discreetly) with more hints and ploys and assurances of good will than ye can count. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
And as ill-luck had it, his ill counsel found me on the swither, as yours did when ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Strong cruel brutes, they did not swither a moment, but both leaped at M'Iver's throat. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
"Good night to you, Sir Churchman; I'm in nae swither whether I would change places wi 'ye the night, but weemen are daft craturs, poor things, and I've had my day." ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
Then, very abruptly, fixing his eyes on me, all of a swither, with my milk-stained cap in my hand, ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
He seemed in a swither as to whether I was a fit confidant or not in such a matter, but at last would appear to decide in my favour. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Meanwhile the big mother moose was thrashing around in the bushes in a terrible swither, calling her calf to come. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)
That pat me in an eerie swither; [put, ghostly dread] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)
"Oh, swither the swipe, with its sweltering sweep!" ❋ Eugene Field (1872)
` ` Troth, sir, but just middling, '' replied the barber; ` ` she's been in a swither about the jocolate this morning, and was like to hae toomed it a 'out into the slap-bason, and drank it hersell in her ecstacies --- but she's won ower wi't, wi' the help o 'Miss ❋ Unknown (1845)
` ` Hout, '' said Ratcliffe, ` ` what signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither? ❋ Unknown (1822)
He seemed to be in a swither whether to return home, to follow ye, or to lie down and die by the road. ❋ John Mackay Wilson (1819)
"Troth, sir, but just middling," replied the barber; "she's been in a swither about the jocolate this morning, and was like to hae toomed it a 'out into the slap-bason, and drank it hersell in her ecstacies -- but she's won ower wi't, wi' the help o 'Miss M'Intyre." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
I swither between keeping the pound and going for the Euro. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I'm [swithering] whether to have a [pint] or a [vodka and] Redbul ❋ The Popeys (2003)
