wiselike

"Ma brother," quoth Wull. "says it's a thing we hae nae use for, and if we could get ought of a wiselike price for't, it would be as well to let it gang."

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various

"This is a wiselike expedition," said Thomas to John.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

'Ay,' returned Steenie; 'I ken she wasna wiselike, sic as you and my mither.

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

I'll tell the sheyk it would misbecome your father's son to do sic a deed owre lichtly, and strive to gar him wait while I am in these parts to get your word, and nae doot it will be wiselike at the last. '

A Modern Telemachus Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Here, however, Mrs. Halfpenny became scandalised at such laughter in the open street; and, perceiving some one in the distance, she carried off Primrose, and enjoined the others to walk on doucely and wiselike.

Beechcroft at Rockstone Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

"Weel, it was maybe no exactly a wiselike expression, Leddy Peebles," observed Mr. Malcolm, submissively, "but the man being ruined and dead - and his family dispairsed, and having received great kindness frae his leddy, when I was a wee lad, I just feel a sort o 'shrinkin' in my tongue to name him hairdly."

Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

The picture he gives is very affecting, and should make us all thankful that we are “wiselike.”

Spare Hours John Brown 1846

The only wiselike thing I heard onybody say, was decent Mr. John Kirk of Kirk-knowe, and he wussed them just to get the king's mercy, and nae mair about it.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

The only wiselike thing I heard onybody say, was decent Mr. John Kirk of Kirk-knowe, and he wussed them just to get the king's mercy, and nae mair about it.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

The only wiselike thing I heard onybody say, was decent Mr. John Kirk of Kirk-knowe, and he wussed them just to get the king’s mercy, and nae mair about it.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007