A man in a swither is a man half absent, as poor a fighter as he is indifferent a lover; the enemy and the girl will escape him ere he has throttled the doubt at his heart There's one test to my mind for all the enterprises of man -- are they well contrived and carried to a good conclusion?. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
And as ill-luck had it, his ill counsel found me on the swither, as yours did when. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Strong cruel brutes, they did not swither a moment, but both leaped at M'Iver's throat. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The wind smells of the Wear, sprays rain on the wall and growls with an insistent swither. From Wordnik.com. [Make This My Default Location (I) : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
He seemed in a swither as to whether I was a fit confidant or not in such a matter, but at last would appear to decide in my favour. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Oh, they'll shift and swither and plot, and ye'll be approached (discreetly) with more hints and ploys and assurances of good will than ye can count. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
"Good night to you, Sir Churchman; I'm in nae swither whether I would change places wi 'ye the night, but weemen are daft craturs, poor things, and I've had my day.". From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
"Oh, swither the swipe, with its sweltering sweep!". From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Cross and Other Tales] Reference
I swither between keeping the pound and going for the Euro. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
` ` Hout, '' said Ratcliffe, ` ` what signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither?. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
He seemed to be in a swither whether to return home, to follow ye, or to lie down and die by the road. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17] Reference
Meanwhile the big mother moose was thrashing around in the bushes in a terrible swither, calling her calf to come. From Wordnik.com. [Wood Folk at School] Reference
Autumn and its thousand adjectives have come to this, a swither in the trees, their limbs bronchial and backlit in the gloam. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
I pick out sleekit (sly) which I know from Burns, but most words: swick (cheat) swither (dither) and jouk (dodge) are new to me. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
ANONYMOUS I am a swither user and I want only to say that this software is the better you can find for mac for restore vynil discs. From Wordnik.com. [MacUpdate - Mac OS X] Reference
Moreover, as friends swither over buying their children Nintendo DS, primarily because they're so good for whiling away the longuers of travelling, I suspect my eight-year-old could be fobbed off with a few Jacqueline. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
` ` Troth, sir, but just middling, '' replied the barber; ` ` she's been in a swither about the jocolate this morning, and was like to hae toomed it a 'out into the slap-bason, and drank it hersell in her ecstacies --- but she's won ower wi't, wi' the help o 'Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
"Troth, sir, but just middling," replied the barber; "she's been in a swither about the jocolate this morning, and was like to hae toomed it a 'out into the slap-bason, and drank it hersell in her ecstacies -- but she's won ower wi't, wi' the help o 'Miss M'Intyre.". From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference
"What signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither?. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction] Reference
“Hout,” said Ratcliffe, “what signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither?. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
"I wish you had been so certain of that a little ago," she said; "you seem very much on the swither. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
A swither she was in about her papa, and what a taking about yourself, with very little cause, and in what a perplexity she had found herself after you was gone away. From Wordnik.com. [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference
The publishers meanwhile don’t have to swither over whether to put out that mad non-linear cubist fantasy as SF/F (and lose half your readers) or general fiction (and risk losing the other half). From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
"Well, then, she told me her concerns," pursued Miss Grant, "and in what a swither she was in about her papa, and what a taking about yourself, with very little cause, and in what a perplexity she had found herself after you was gone away. From Wordnik.com. [David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.] Reference
MacCailein scrutinised me sharply, and opened his lips as it were to say something, but changed his mind, and made a gesture towards the bottle, which John Splendid speedily availed himself of with a "Here's one who has no swither about it. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
I did the lavender/rosemary swither too. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Island Dreams « Fairegarden] Reference
I had a sore swither ere I could think of leaving my mother and Sandy for their sakes, but He guided me and strengthened me, though whiles I used to doubt afterwards, with my sore heart wearying for my own land, and my own kin. ". From Wordnik.com. [Janet's Love and Service] Reference
I am in a sair swither. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish sketches] Reference
That put me in an eerie swither. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
That pat me in an eerie swither. From Wordnik.com. [Death and Dr. Hornbook] Reference
It found Janet still "in a swither.". From Wordnik.com. [Janet's Love and Service] Reference
An 'that there is I've little swither. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
Their bauldest thought's a 'hank'ring swither. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
"One day Powell came over with the spring-cart to fetch me home, and I was in a swither what to do, for ye don't just like to press services on folk that do not want them; but by that time Mr. Phillips had got to know the necessity of the case, and it was only because he wanted the offer to come from his wife that he had not asked me before; but she was unreasonable, and he had to do it himself. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Hogarth's Will] Reference
“she’s been in a swither about the jocolate this morning, and was like to hae toomed it a’ out into the slap-bason, and drank it hersell in her ecstacies — but she’s won ower wi’t, wi’ the help o’ Miss M’Intyre.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
I swither, Davie. ". From Wordnik.com. [David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.] Reference
I’m all a-swither, sweating like a brock. From Wordnik.com. [Krindlesyke] Reference
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