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Autumn and its thousand adjectives have come to this, a swither in the trees, their limbs bronchial and backlit in the gloam.— VQR
Meanwhile the big mother moose was thrashing around in the bushes in a terrible swither, calling her calf to come I had almost reached the little fellow when the wind brought him the strong scent that he had learned in the woods a few days before, and he bleated sharply.— Wood Folk at School
I swither, Davie Time flies, Alan," said I I ken that," said Alan.— David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona
They found the office in a "swither," as Harry said, over the revelations of fraud that were coming to light every day--book-keeper, clerk, and timber-checker having all been in conspiracy to defraud the company Where have you been, Harry?"— The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa
I swither, Davie. "— Catriona

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