graith

• ““Neither,” answered Harry Gow; “I should but prevent your rest, and for me this easy chair is worth a down bed, and I will sleep like a sentinel, with my graith about me.””

  The Fair Maid of Perth

• “Sae they began to jeer the Laird, that he saw nae sic graith in his ain poor country; and the Laird, scorning to hae his country put down without a word for its credit, swore, like a gude Scotsman, that he had mair candlesticks, and better candlesticks, in his ain castle at hame, than were ever lighted in”

  A Legend of Montrose

• ““There has been Jock Driver the carrier here, speering about his new graith,” said Mrs. Saddletree to her husband, as he crossed his threshold, not with the purpose, by any means, of consulting him upon his own affairs, but merely to intimate, by a gentle recapitulation, how much duty she had gone through in his absence.”

  The Heart of Mid-Lothian

• “But how many of her readers realise that she is not out to dizzledazzle with a graith uncouthre-ment of postmantuam glasseries from the lapins and the grigs.”

  Finnegans Wake

• “And then he showed how I suld have done, — and that I suld have held up my hand to my brow, as if the grandeur of the king and his horse-graith thegither had casten the glaiks in my een, and mair jackanape tricks I suld hae played, instead of offering the Sifflication, he said, as if I had been bringing guts to a bear.”

  The Fortunes of Nigel

• “Then Meg took up her spinnin 'graith, [implements]”

  Robert Burns How To Know Him

• “An 'ploughmen gather wi' their graith, [implements]”

  Robert Burns How To Know Him

• “Here farmers gash in ridin 'graith [complacent, attire]”

  Robert Burns How To Know Him

• “Sae they began to jeer the Laird, that he saw nae sic graith in his ain poor country; and the Laird, scorning to hae his country put down without a word for its credit, swore, like a gude Scotsman, that he had mair candlesticks, and better candlesticks, in his ain castle at hame, than were ever lighted in a hall in Cumberland, an Cumberland be the name o 'the country.' ”

  A Legend of Montrose

• “Thou rides in strange graith on my lord's business,' he said, as he put the key in the lock.”

  St. George and St. Michael Volume II

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