wyte
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It was the Bishops and Lord Halifax that did it, and the Bishops paid the wyte, as Sam says.
From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Emily Sarah Holt
And, puir man! it was waur for him nor for me and Milton; for it was a' his ain wyte; and it was no to be expecket he cud be sae quaiet as anither.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
And ye are to remember I wad bear the wyte for 't, for naebody but our two sel's should ken the truth.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
The wyte o' war is at kings' doors.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
I chose of foure good dysportes and honeste gamys, that is to wyte: of huntynge: hawkynge: fysshynge: and foulynge.
From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Charles Barker Bradford
"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
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
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