Lexicographical Neighbors of Airths
Literary usage of Airths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty by Ralph Erskine (1795)
"The third remark I offer is, that there are certain airths, or particular quarters
from whence the gathering of the people is made. Whence are they gathered ..."
2. The art of deer-stalking by William Scrope (1838)
"... excellent cooks and potin- gars (15), with confections and drugs for their
desert. 9 " airths," Quarter of the heaven; point of the compass. ..."
3. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson (1817)
"with fine glass windows in all airths (directions); that this place was as
pleasantly decored with all necessaries pertaining to a prince, as it had been ..."
4. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the by Agnes Strickland (1851)
"The palace within was hung with fine tapestry and arras, and lighted with fine
glass windows at all airths, and it was as pleasantly decorated as if it had ..."
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