daith

• "What is h'ard by those doomed tae daith is the conspiracy o' Charles Lord Glencardine an' the Earl o' Kintyre for the murder o' the infamous Cardinal Setoun o' St. Andrews, wha, as I dare say ye ken fra history, miss, was assassinated here, on this very spot whaur we stan'. —  The House of Whispers
• "It's sudden daith," chipped in Sandy Brown. —  The Kangaroo Marines
• "He will not be in his own place any more And then I got at him with the questions The mother will be sitting all day and not greeting terrible," says he, "and Betty will be oching and seching like a daith in the house; and I came to be telling you--and he will have the thin sword with him And the lad lisped and boggled at the English, till I shook the Gaelic into him--and there was the story It would be two nights ago that Bryde McBride came into the loft where the halflin was sleeping, and bade him dress He would be all in his good claes," said the lad, "and the sword on him," and he told me how the two of them had carried a kist through the hill and down behind the Big House--"there would still be a light in the young leddy's chamber," for Bryde McBride had stood looking at it, and talking in the Gaelic. —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran
• I weel h-everything h-else wheech I may leave at my daith, both real and personal property, to Madame Attalie Brouillard, leevingue at Number,' etc. 'I appoint my sayed fran' Camille Ducour as my testamentary executor, weeth-out bon', and grant heem dthe seizin' of my h-estate, h-and I dir-ect heem to pay h-all my juz debts Thees weel and tes_tam_ent as thus dic_tated too me by sayed tes_tator and wheech was wreeten by me notarie by my h-own han' jus' as dic_tated, was thane by me not-arie rade to sayed Mr. [Englishman] in an au_dib_le voice and in the presence of dthe aforesayed three witnesses, and dthe sayed Mr. [Englishman] dic_lar-ed that he well awnder-stood me not-arie and per_sev_er-ed een dic_laring the same too be his laz weel; all of wheech was don' at one time and place weethout in_ter_'uption and weethout turningue aside to other acts Thus done and pass-ed," etc The notary rose, a wet pen in one hand and the will--with his portfolio under it for a tablet--in the other. —  Strange True Stories of Louisiana
• "The mother will be sitting all day and not greeting terrible," says he, "and Betty will be oching and seching like a daith in the house; and I came to be telling you -- and he will have the thin sword with him." —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran

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