airt
noun
a direction.
airth
-
a variation of
airt.
Example Sentences
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"Jezebel?" says I. "What on airth do you call me that for?"
From The Postmaster by Joseph C. Lincoln
Her vanity, like the gaudy streamers o' her head-gear, winnows wi' every wind but that which comes frae the airth, whar God's chastening tribulations hae their holy birth.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
When I went in, ses I, "'Kiah, what on airth is the matter?"
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith
"A jungle—a jungle," continued the Squire, coughing in his embarrassment; "a jungle—is—a—place—a kind-er cave, where the lions go, deep inter the airth, and where they can growl and roar, without disturbin' anybody."
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
Jes' the whole sky overhead, And the whole airth underneath.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin
