Lexicographical Neighbors of Laighest
Literary usage of Laighest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's by Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1888)
"... Men goe o'er the dyke at the laighest. Mends is worth misdeeds. Meikle bead,
little wit. Millers tak ay the best mouter wi' their ain hand. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"Where the buck's bound, there he maun bleet. Where the deer's slain some of the
blood will lie. Where the dyke's laighest it is ..."
3. Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland by Andrew Cheviot (1896)
"EVERY ane loups the dyke where its laighest. Where the hedge is lowest, men will
soonest over.—E. Also in Gaelic, Dutch, and Fr. EVERY beast his bottle. ..."
4. Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the by William Hector (1876)
"... And that they would Burn their House above ther head and make the highest
stone the laighest, and Called the Comprs wife and family whores and thieves, ..."
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