"Lither" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... man found, one day, a young gentleman's portmantle, as he were a going to es dennar; he took'd et en and gived et to es wife, and said, "Mally, here's a roul of lither, look, see, I suppoase some poor ould shoemaker or other have los'en; tak'en, and put'en a top of the teaster of tha bed; he'll be glad to hab'en agin sum day, I dear say." The ould man, Jan, that was es neame, went to es work ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... has layen lang in, There is na riding there at a'; The horses are grown sae lither fat, They downa stur out ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... and evil done to your roial maieste, to grete and perpetuell confusion and repreef of the evil doers, and grete velany and shame to alle dwellyng withynne the same cite, as wele innocent as unknowyng therof, as other; which malfaisours or evil doers, for there trespases have deserved harde and lither chastisement and punysshement, ne were that the high benignite of you oure doutful lord fulfilled, of al grace wol not procede ayens them after there deserts, which if ye shulde ayenst them procede, shulde be distrucion, ...
— A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 • Anonymous
... But up then rose that lither lad, And did on hose and shoon; A collar he cast upon his neck, He ...
— Ballads of Romance and Chivalry - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series • Frank Sidgwick
... Christ Triumphant into its present state, patching up what "the lither lad" from Pistoja had boggled. Buonarroti, who was sincerely attached to Varj, and felt his artistic reputation now at stake, offered to make a new statue. But the magnanimous Roman gentleman replied that he was entirely satisfied with the one he had received. He regarded and esteemed it "as a ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds |
