wyte
Americanverb
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‘Put na the wyte on me,’ she says, ‘It was her May Catheren.’
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
And everych of them a good mantell Of scarlet and of raye; All they came to good Robyn, To wyte what he wolde say.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
My lord he stood upon the deck, I wyte he hail'd me courteouslie: "Ye are thrice welcome, my lady gay: Wha'se aught that bairn on your knee?"
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
The wyte o' wars lie at the doors of kings, and the soldiers are free o' the sin o' them.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
One small twinge may be all the penalty to-day, when an hour’s deadly anguish shall not pay the wyte to-morrow.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
S'y, we never wyted to hear no more, but hyked awye hot foot.
From A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris
Ye may thank your stars, Jack, that ye hae ne'er been guilty o' the foul things that he's wyted wi'.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
"That's the Reiver's mother," said one of the Elliots; "she's ten times waur than himsell, and is wyted for muckle of the ill he does about the country."
From The Black Dwarf by Sir Walter Scott
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