Lexicographical Neighbors of Fauts
Literary usage of Fauts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"... auld days / And the new anes thegither ; / Wi' the fauts and the failings /
O' past years be dune, / Wi a grip o' fresh freen ship , A New-Year begin. ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns, William Ernest Henley (1897)
"... than me: He had twa fauts, or maybe three, Ae night the storm the steeples
rocked; Poor Labour sweet in sleep was locked ; While burns, ..."
3. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson (1890)
"“ Faut finders should be faut mender,.” “ The fauts 0' some are wed kent to a'.”
“ We hide the fauts 0' them we like best. ..."
4. The Psalms: Frae Hebrew Intil Scottis by Peter Hately Waddell (1882)
"Twa fauts abune the lave he had, an' they war baith Hebrew fauts. The warst о'
the twa was, he sought owre het for bluid. The stoor he stude an' the ill he ..."
5. The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections by Phineas Garrett (1892)
"I'm sure, Bob, it wid be guid for baith o' us to lia'e our bit fauts—for there's
naebody free o' them—-pointed oot and corrected by them wha ken maist about ..."
6. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1889)
"... he'll send " When my great Judge Life's wah unrolls, Could he owre hard or
cruel for me. Oh ! would that I could calmly think Repentance a' these fauts ..."
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