belyve

A jocular allusion to the fact that if a person says he will be back, or done with anything "belyve," that is, immediately, or in a little, the probability is he will be longer than expected.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

[Gullen supposedly reflects rhymes as used in Scotland, but this is a Northumbrian song, in Bruce & Stokoe (1882), 110, with its pleasant tune.] 1.4 alive should be belyve, i.e. soon.

About the Bush, Willy 1950

Let this request that I shall make in both our names belyve [6]

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

The sun gaed loon a 'bluidy, an' belyve the morn rose unco mirk an 'dreary, wi' bullers (rollers) frae the west like muckle sowthers (soldiers) wi 'white plumes.

Richard Carvel — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909

The sun gaed loon a 'bluidy, an' belyve the morn rose unco mirk an 'dreary, wi' bullers (rollers) frae the west like muckle sowthers (soldiers) wi 'white plumes.

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

The sun gaed loon a 'bluidy, an' belyve the morn rose unco mirk an 'dreary, wi' bullers (rollers) frae the west like muckle sowthers (soldiers) wi 'white plumes.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Till a 'their weel-swall'd kytes belyve [well-swelled bellies soon]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

"Leave my presence, and learn your duty, belyve, for before the turn of the moon Staneholme's wife ye sall be."

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

I ken it frae ane o 'his concurrents, as they ca' them, that's warned to meet him; and they'll be about their wark belyve; whare they clip, there needs nae kame --- they shear close eneugh. ''

The Antiquary 1845

Sit down, sirs, they'll be in belyve; '' and she dismissed her spindle from her hand to twirl upon the floor, and soon seemed exclusively occupied in regulating its motion, as unconscious of the presence of the strangers as she appeared indifferent to their rank or business there.

The Antiquary 1845