deith

"The evenin 'licht, sir," he answered at length; "for ye see the sun's deem 'like, an' deith's like a fa'in asleep, an 'the grave's the bed, an' the sod's the bedclaes, an 'there's a lang nicht to the fore."

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

Glossary: gaes tae goes to wha maist who most gif if sib siblings gang tae the broom make love dae sae do so my deith gang tae go to my death through ither together wi 'bairn with child ain one gang go nae mair no more tint lost lo'ed loved sic such

Sheath and Knife 2 1984

For onything I ken, they may hae their wuss, but for mysel ', I wad warstle to haud my sowl waukin' (_awake_) i 'the verra article o' deith, for the bare chance o 'seein' my bonny Grizel again.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

"Ye maun bear in mind," he said, "that ye're nae mair twa, but ae flesh; an 'ye'll bide wi' ane anither till deith shall ye pairt -- that is, gin ye're spared."

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

"Ye'll no mak it, and ye'll come an awfu 'cropper, as sure as deith."

Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry Ralph Connor 1898

[627] Fra quhilk honour and perfectioun, man and woman did bothe fal: the woman being deceived be the Serpent, and man obeying the voyce of the woman, both conspyring against the Soveraigne Majestie of God, who in expressed words had before threatned deith, gif they presumed to eit of the forbidden tre.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

A 'peetied him wi' Tammas lookin 'at him sae wistfully, as if he hed the keys o' life an 'deith in his hands.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

Nae man can prophecee hoo it 'ill end, but ae thing is certain, a'll no see deith tak a Drumtochty man afore his time if a' can help it.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

"Puir lassie, a 'houp her father' ill be kind tae her, for she's sair broken, and looks liker deith than life."

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

Burnbrae, an 'yon shepherd's wife Dunleith wy, an' we were a sae prood o 'ye, an' pleased tae think that ye hed keepit deith frae anither hame.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878