Lexicographical Neighbors of Freits
Literary usage of Freits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Rhymes of Scotland: With Illustrations by Robert Chambers (1826)
"... UP A', MISCELLANEOUS freits. CHARM used in Galloway for curing scorbutic spots
on the skins of children. ..."
2. Folk Lore in Lowland Scotland by Evelyn Blantyre Simpson (1908)
"freits (omens) follow those who look for freits," replied Park, thinking of the
words of the old ballad, " Edom o' Gordon "— " Them look to ..."
3. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"It's freits will follow them; Let it ne'er be said that Edom o' Gordon Was daunted
by a dame.' But when the lady saw the fire Come flaming owre her head, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by John Gibson Lockhart (1848)
"To which he answered, smiling, " freits (omens) follow those who look to them."
With this expression Mungo struck the spurs into his horse, and Scott never ..."
5. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest Old Ballads by William Allingham (1886)
"32 Then some they rade, and some they ran, Out-owre the grass and bent; But ere
the foremost could win up, Baith lady and babes were brent " freits,''ill ..."
6. The Pictorial Book of Ancient Ballad Poetry of Great Britain, Historical by Joseph S. Moore (1853)
"... luiks to freits ..... freits will follow ;" (ii. 14). Those who look for ill
omens, ill luck will follow. ..."
7. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the edited by Cora Linn Morrison Daniels, Charles McClellan Stevens (1903)
"A Scotch proverb says: "freits follow them 'at ... (freits are superstitious
notions or beliefs with respect to any action or event, ..."
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