Lexicographical Neighbors of Laigher
Literary usage of Laigher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"The higher the hill, the laigher the grass. —ALLAN RAMSAY'S Scots Proverbs.
Dance aye laigh and late at e'en. —BURNS : My Jo, Janet. ..."
2. The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860 by William Walker (1887)
"... observe the clear blue sky, Then, laigher still, ye charm the eye With woods,
and groves, and flow'ry fields, And a' the sweets which nature yields. ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1875)
"At the sa-nae time it is absolutely necessary, in arguments of this kind, to
point out what appears to be the only solid and rational basis of tno laigher ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"The tame hand formed those in the earthern mine, that hung these on tlie celestial
vault—and then methinks, sir, that the laigher roof, ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"... Or when ye come where I hae been The gowd band frae your crown, For if ye gang
where I hae been Ye'll wear it laigher down. When ye're in the gude kirk ..."
6. Christianizing the Social Order by Walter Rauschenbusch (1912)
"If our 1 business men engaged in reorganizing business for that laigher end, they
could for the first time in history have the same ennobling sense of ..."
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