mithers

"Faigs, Sandy, if they shape themselves efter your pattern, their mithers an 'wives -- if ever they get that len'th --' ill lose a hankie o 'sleep wi' them, I'm thinkin '."

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

But you'll of'en see't, that wirkin 'mithers mak' feckless dochters.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

He made himsel 'rale frank, an' speer'd for a 'their mithers, an' a'thing; an 'then we got roond the ben-hoose table, an' had a fine game at the totum for cracknets.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

O'er a hundred Americans -- hundreds of women and little bairns, Mary -- like yours -- Canadian mithers and bairns going to be near their brave lads

The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

I knew what it was like, over yonder in France, and I could tell American faithers and mithers what their boys maun see and do when the great transports took them oversea.

Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

Ance a man-child has beaten his way to life under the heart of a woman, she is mither to all men, for the hearts of mithers are everywhere the same.

Freckles 1904

The mithers an 'bairns maun juist gang hame an' stap their havers, an 'licht a' the candles an 'cruisey lamps i' their hames, an 'set them i' the windows aboon the kirkyaird.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

Such an excited shouting of admiration and calling on mithers to come and see the bonny wee dog was never before heard on Swanston village green.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

Noo, mony o 'the mithers hang the claes oot at nicht.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

"Ah, weel," he said, "we hae'na muckle use for a camp-horrse here, ye ken; wi'oot some of these lads wad like to try theer han 'cuttin' oot the milkers 'cawves frae their mithers."

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902