sweir

How to use sweir in a sentence

• The Papists raged against the Governor and against the Lords that consented, and abode sweir at the contract.

  The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland | John Knox

• I winna gar ye sweir, for I wad lippen to yer aith no a hair.

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875. | Various

• Deferred hopes need not make me dead-sweir (as we used to say): my cross is both my cross and my reward.

  Letters of Samuel Rutherford | Samuel Rutherford

• And'—the rest was spoken in a whisper—'I'll sweir to ye, Meggie, the weyver body sanna hae ae drap o' 't.'

  Robert Falconer | George MacDonald