fau't

"Why, mon, that's no 'his fau't -- that's his misfortune."

More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

It wasna his fau't that Bobby was aye at his heels.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

"Ah, no matter about it; and it wasn't your fau't more than another's," said Theresa.

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

And ne'er a soul is there to spake a word -- all of thim agin him, and it no fau't of his, when he would be torminted that way.

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

To ca 'a man like mine a heepocreet 'cause he wadna procleem till a haul market ilka secret fau't o' the horse he had to sell!

The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

But gien I dinna du weel, it winna be the fau't o 'ane or the ither o' you twa freen's.

The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

"I was at the school wi 'him, and never saw onything to fin' fau't wi '."

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

"You know it wa'nt my fau't, Atha," continued her mother, in a softened tone of voice, "I always thought John Welch good enough for anybody, but Bob Aymor must always carry a high head, and I look for the day to come when he'll wish he had carried it lower."

Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I. 1839

-- God pardon me for cursin 'the harmless crathurs, for sure' tisn't their fau't, sir: but you see, Major, I'll insinse you into it.

The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

'That is her own fau't, entirely; she has refused very good offers -- establishments that, I own, I think, as Lady Langdale says, I was to blame to allow her to let pass; but young LEDIES till they are twenty, always think they can do better.

The Absentee Maria Edgeworth 1808