The sun has left the lea. The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea.    From LearnThat.org.  [Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)]

Noun : a 20-lea yarn.    From Dictionary.com. 

That is called the lea of Lymdale 'twixt the wood and the water-side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference

leas, a lea is a term at Kidderr minster for a hank or quantity of yarn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators] Reference

Nordhausen in the morning: the lea is a green salad, crisp with raindrops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

The DMS-6000 Digital Media Server is the new launch of the CodexNovus, a company known as a lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [CyberTheater] Reference

"Jist help me oot, an 'lea' the lave to me," said Annie, confidently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

Ay! he keeps the nicht till himsel ', an' lea's the day to hiz (us).    From Wordnik.com.  [Malcolm] Reference

The White House has called the lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to No victory in war of terror till Pak"s ISI reined in: Karzai aide Home] Reference

O'er thy lea I have revell'd in youth's sunny ray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

So payment plan is really not in the doctor's lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2009] Reference

Which's driven many a poor seaman upon a lea shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scarborough Sands] Reference

The beaste as nature lea - deth, he obaieth nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference

The snaw 's drifting blindly o'er moorland an 'lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

I grat an 'I sabb'd till I thocht life wad lea' me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

Her smiles like the sunbeam that glints on the lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

The cauld norlan 'win' ca's the drift owre the lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

The beauty of the purple-bell, the daisy of the lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

The summer sun is sinking low behind the field and lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Valley of Knockanure] Reference

And the gold silvered pale when the light left the lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Poetry of the South] Reference

While she is light an 'merry as the lammie on the lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

And sweet is sleep by summer-brooks upon the breezy lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference

'The wind went drifting o'er the lea,' -- it's easy enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Says So] Reference

"They're going to run in under the lea of Palm Island," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference

My ain kind dearie, O! There 's walth ower yon green lea-rig.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

An 'danced in nature's fairy bowers by mountain, lake, and lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

"Dinna lea 's oor lanes, my lord -- no yet," Malcolm persisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

The head went flying over the lea, but it had no more words to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

I have seen many such cases, especially where potatoes were planted on lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference

It is founded on an older ditty, beginning, "I'll rowe thee o'er the lea-rig.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

Multitudes of girls are as thoughtless and giddy as the lambs that sport on the lea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, etc. Then awa 'to the hills, to the lea, to the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Ballads] Reference