Though loth to leave this interesting home, he concluded to go. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
He is loth to part with the Mother Land, which he still calls "home.". From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
Though at times loth to leave Paris, Sir Donald and Esther will visit. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Peik was loth to part with it, but for his sake he would let him have it. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
Nothing loth, the children ran off to the lake to see what was happening. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
After their week's exposure I was loth to inform my men of such a destiny. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
Sir Donald and Esther were loth to go, but the hospital rules were strict. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
'Why,' replied he, nothing loth to talk about himself, 'it happened this fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
I was very loth to let him go alone; but he would not hear of my accompanying him. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
"But he may come back here at any minute," argued Cherry, loth to enter the field. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
In brief, he is one that has lost all good himself, and is loth to find it in another. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
"But I knows how now, sir," objected Jim, who was loth to discard his new accomplishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
For half an hour the two lingered among these friends who were so loth to part with them. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
Nothing loth, both parties did as they were told, to the confusion of the pious community. From Wordnik.com. [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference
Haflidi has an ill-conditioned nephew whom, for his brother's sake, he is loth to cast off. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
He was loth to believe them, and as usual, enquired of me if they were telling him the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Stories and Sketches] Reference
Long time Ixion abode in the house of Hesioneus, for Hesioneus was loth to part with his child. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
We struck a light, but it was as loth to show its brightness as the ancient bushel-hidden candle. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
But I have refrained from describing so many scenes of woe, that I am loth to dwell much on these. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
'Fair friends,' replied Sir Lancelot, 'I am full loth to fight against my dear lord, King Arthur.'. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
He is wondrous loth to hazard his credulity, and whilst he fears to believe amiss, believes nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
'Sit down,' he said, and nothing loth, for my legs still ached painfully, I took a chair by the door. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Our men, however, appear loth to advance far enough to afford the necessary protection to the workers. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
The Master said, The men of old were loth to speak, for not to live up to their words would have shamed them. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
Grace, however, was strangely loth to do so; and when, at last, she went to her own room, she could not sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
The director of the band being in want of a dancing-bear, is not loth to take advantage of the lad's foolishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Her hair was white with age, but over her features, the rosy bloom of youth still lingered, as if loth to depart. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Again and again it sounded, but the Irish Fusiliers were loth to accept the call, and continued firing for many minutes. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Then he offered it to him again; then he put it by again; but to my thinking, he was very loth to lay his fingers off it. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
The Pecos took the proposal under consideration, but were loth to leave the home where they had lived for so many centuries. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
The king, he said, had been very loth to take action against the City, but had been driven to do so by the recent elections. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
At all events, the protagonists were somewhat loth to utilise the dirigible upon an elaborate scale or in an aggressive manner. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The ship, as if loth to leave the spot, lingered there; for it fell calm, and by the next meridian we had logged but seven miles. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Like the dove, I had found a resting-place from the waste of waters, and loth, very loth was I to return to my home upon the deep. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
He is elsewhere styled by him "learned and godly," -- but the epithet "genteel" gives an extra touch that we should be loth to lose. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
It's now a career offering lucrative opportunities across the media, and today's comics are understandably loth to jeopardise all that. From Wordnik.com. [Talk politics, lose a crowd] Reference
She offers him her father's kingdom, which he though full of love and gratitude, is loth to accept, as he only claims her heart and hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
The Corporal, nothing loth, took the flask, and, raising it to his mouth, emptied it, to the utter dismay of the Captain and his friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
But it was such complaining as only too plainly indicated that he was loth to relinquish any of this delightful attention he was receiving. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
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