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The mony hardships I ha'e tholed Sin' I left Larocklea, I maun na tell, for it would bring The saut tear in thine e'e.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

How we tholed it sae lang I dinna ken.

From Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812 by Withrow, W. H. (William Henry)

So they pushed out to sea, and hard weather they tholed.

From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

But within me I felt desperately ill-prepared: yet, for the sake of the banner I carried, I tholed and said nothing.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Ebenezer Muir and my father tholed with him for some time; but at last he so far forgot his place and office, that they both rose and moved towards the door.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John