mightna

“Weel — and mightna you have purchased as weel as other folk?”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

That mightna be a bad thing, but I trust ye to show discretion, for ye'll not be muckle use to onybody if they jyle ye in Duke Street.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

She mightna see how it was to be done, but kennin 'what a crittur he is, she maun be sure he would find a wy.

Tommy and Grizel 1898

Ye may say beauty's but skin deep, and I'm saying nothing to the contrary; but it's awfu 'pleasant to the sight of men; and I'll just tell you this, Drumcarro – though it's maybe no a thing that's fit for me to say – there's no a great man in a' the land that bairn mightna 'marry if she had justice done her.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

He tell't me whae ye were, and how ye were sent frae your father's house because ye wadna be a dealer, and that ye mightna disgrace your family wi 'ganging on the stage.

Rob Roy 1887

Nae word my ain fayther and mither mightna hae listened to.

A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

And when we came near to the foot o 'the brae, I garred (made) her take off her hose and shoon, and wade doon the burn a bittie that the dog mightna follow the scent, and I laid doon peats that she might step on them a bit o' the way between the burn and my ain door.

Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not 1859

"I mightna like it, but it might be for your good, for all that."

Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not 1859

There is no saying what we mightna 'do if we were left to ourselves.

The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened 1859

` ` And had just cruppen to the gallows 'foot to see the hanging, as was natural for a wean; and what for mightna she hae been shot as weel as the rest o' them, and where wad we a 'hae been then?

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822