laith

• “Meaning that although some people are slow or "laith" to begin a thing, still, when they do commence, it is difficult to get them to leave off.”

  The Proverbs of Scotland

• “‘I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent,’ said my gudesire; ‘and if there be any one that is guilty, I have nae proof.’”

  Redgauntlet

• “The conference xuhich Sir Charles ivas put upon holding with the unhappy Clementina, on her being seized laith melancholy.”

  Sir Charles Grandison

• “For further information you may contact laith.marouf@gmail.com”

  Saturday, September 30, 2006

• “I was laith to make awa wi 'the old dowg, his like wasne atween this and”

  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6

• ““I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent, ” said my gudesire; “and if there be anyone that is guilty, I have nae proof.”

  Wandering Willie’s Tale

• “Says, ‘Lady, I’ll gang, tho’ to leave you I’m laith.”

  The Baron of Brackley

• ““I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent, ” said my gudesire; “and if there be any one that is guilty, I have nae proof.”

  Wandering Willie’s Tale

• “I was laith to make awa wi 'the old dowg, his like wasne atween this and Thornhill -- but,”

  The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories

• “` ` Weel, sirs, I am laith to enter into deadly fued with you by spilling ony of your bluid, though Earnscliff hasna stopped to shed mine”

  The Black Dwarf

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