claith

Though the claith were bad, blithely may we niffer

Great Scots 2009

Though the claith were bad, blithely may we niffer

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Sampsoun, wrappit within a lynnyng claith, was fyrst delyuerit to the deuell; quhilk efter he had pronuncit his verde, delyuerit the said pictour to Anny Sampsoun, and sche to hir nyxt marrow, and sa euery ane round about, saying, 'This is King James the sext, ordonit to be consumed at the instance of a noble man Francis Erle Bodowell!'

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

Thom said, 'Seis thow nocht me, baith meit-worth, claith-worth, and gude aneuch lyke in persoun, and [he] suld make hir far better nor euer sche was?'

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

There swankies young in braw braid-claith [strapping youngsters]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlans, let a be breeks o 'free-stone, and garters o' iron. ''

Rob Roy 1887

Oppressive customs by which "the upmost claith," or a pecuniary equivalent, was extorted as a kind of death-duty by the clergy, were sanctioned by excommunication: no grievance was more bitterly felt by the poor.

A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang 1878

'At ever I sud hae ta'en steik in claith for sic a deil's buckie!

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

Forbye, gin ye began wi 'his claes, ye wadna ken whaur to haud; for it wad jist be the new claith upo' the auld garment: ye micht as weel new cleed him at ance. '

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

For ae thing, the tailor taks a bit o ''t to mark whaur he's to sen' the shears alang the claith, when he's cuttin oot a pair o 'breeks; and again they mix't up wi the clay they tak for the finer kin's o' crockery.

Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864