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- adjective obsolete Scythed.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sithe .
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Examples
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The aunts wuz all a-settin 'round very solemn, an' they sithed an 'rocked themselves back an' forth like trees in a wind.
Dialect Tales 1883
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After a little, Florindy she sithed an 'said, "Sister Wysnicker, what's the duty of one sister in the society when she's discovered another sister in the act o' backslidin '? "
Dialect Tales 1883
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I sithed, and the sithe wuz deep, almost like a groan, and sez I--
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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And they never told, only jest murmured and sithed, and kinder took on about it in their own way.
Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881
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I groaned and sithed when he told me, and sez I, "What won't you do next, Josiah Allen?"
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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And if you said anything, you would have to pay so much a word; or if you sithed, you'd have to pay so much a sithe, or breathe deep you would have to pay accordin 'to the deepness of your breath.
Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881
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Oh how I sithed and groaned when I see his sotness, and knowed he wuz no more fit for the job than our old steer to give music lessons on the banjo.
Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881
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I sithed to see it, no money would tempt me to wear 'em to mill or meetin ', or to let Josiah wear' em.
Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881
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Wall, suffice it to say, I sithed deep, and opened the other letter, thinkin 'it would kind o' take my mind off.
Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 1 Marietta Holley 1881
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But it wuzn't no such thing; we never paid a cent, and I sithed deep and frequent on the way up from the wharf, for weariness lay holt of me and also little Delight.
Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881
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