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Definition of Liefer
1. lief [adj] - See also: lief
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liefer
Literary usage of Liefer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard of Usage in English by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1908)
"Ix HAD liefer, HAD RATHER, AND HAD BETTER, WITH THE INFINITIVE T the present day
one occasionally meets in newspapers and even in books such an expression ..."
2. The Homoeopathic domestic medicine by Joseph Laurie (1883)
"The drinks may consist of water, "toast-water, and sometimes whey, rice- or
barley- water, sweetened with a little sugar if desired, liefer also to the ..."
3. Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping by Herbert B. Mason (1908)
"Publications : " Narrative of an Expedition in HMS Terror " (1838) ; " Narrative
of the Arctic Land Expedition 1833-35" (1836). liefer to Arctic Exploration ..."
4. The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edmund Gosse, Thomas James Wise (1918)
"I had liefer hae my ain twa hands, And keep my body cold; I had liefer hae my
... But I had liefer hae my lady's mouth Than the silk and the siller bands; ..."
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