saft
Britishadjective
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You know her ways, kind o’ sad an’ saft.
From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Ridgwell Cullum
“Ay,” said Tosh, eagerly, “but will it be a saft, cowdie sweet ding-on?”
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Ay, I tried no to take them, but—Oh, lads, it’s queer to think how saft I was.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
But he lay by his napkin fine,145 Was saft as ony silk, And on the block he laid his neck, Was whiter than the milk.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
He minded that ropes was unco saft things, and the solan’s neb and the Bass Rock unco hard, and that twa hunner feet were raither mair than he would care to fa’.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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