straught

“It is written on his brow, Annie Winnie,” returned the octogenarian, her companion, “that hand of woman, or of man either, will never straught him: dead-deal will never be laid on his back, make you your market of that, for I hae it frae a sure hand.”

The Bride of Lammermoor

And I'm on the final straught with Da Book --delivery end of Jul, early Aug. Thank Christ.

Drastic Plastic

Power, wythe his heasod [195] straught [196] ynto the skyes,

The Rowley Poems

Then roming vp and downe vppon the grasse, he seemed rather to be a man straught and bounde with chaines, than like one that had his wittes and vnderstanding.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1

Anethe [123] the stronge push of mie straught [124] out speere,

The Rowley Poems

For muckle anes an 'straught anes. [big ones, straight]

Robert Burns How To Know Him

I steppit up to Tarn and charged him simple and straught.

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places

Faith! she sat as straught as a rash, wi 'jist a hing i' the heid o 'her, like the heid o' a halm o 'wild aits.'

Robert Falconer

-- Dauvid, man, ye'll hae to saiddle and ride; the doctor maun gang wi 'ye straught to

Heather and Snow

I wud be surer but that I hae thoucht whiles I saw the muckle angels themsels gaein aboot, throu and throu the ondingin flauchter o 'the snaw -- no mony o' them, ye ken, but jist whiles ane and whiles anither, throu amo 'the cauld feathers, gaein aye straught wi' their heids up, walkin comfortable, as gien they war at hame in't.

Heather and Snow