fowth

There's been a fowth o 'sheep-care pitten intil' im.

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

An 'there was a fowth o' awfu 'stories reengin' the country, like ghaists 'at naebody cud get a grip o' -- as to hoo he had gotten the said siller, an 'sic like -- the siller' at naebody ever saw; for upo 'that siller, as I tell ye, naebody ever cuist an e'e.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

Eh, the fowth o 'fushionless beggars I hae seen come to me like yersel'!

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

Gin the clergy o 'thae times warna a gey hantle mair enlichtened nor a fowth o' the clergy hereabouts, he wad hae heard a heap aboot the glory o 'God, as the thing' at God himsel 'was maist anxious aboot uphaudin', jist like a prood creater o 'a king; an' that he wad mak 'men, an' feed them, an 'cleed them, an' gie them braw wives an 'toddlin' bairnies, an 'syne damn them, a' for's ain glory.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

a 'the same, gien she had been rich, an' her father -- I'll no say the hangman, but him 'at he last hangt, there wad be fowth (PLENTY) o' coonty-fowk wad hae her til her denner wi 'them.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

Saht in the club thinkin 'it ovah, and decided to sally fowth to seek adventuah ---- "

The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901