Lexicographical Neighbors of Tochered
Literary usage of Tochered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"... Weel-tochered, -'d [well-dowered]. Weel-featur'd, weel-tocher'd, weel mounted
and braw ; S. There's л ... Nae weel-tochered aunts, to wait on their ..."
2. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1849)
"As this lady happened to be a "tochered lass," ... Having shortly afterwards
become also a "tochered lass," and met him, while driving through the country ..."
3. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"... and tochered by him, yet thereby she was not secluded from the legitim ...
the pursuer was tochered in her father's time, ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"... as well ken'd the lucky lad that he too would get a weel tochered lassie, long
afore his brow became wrinkled with age, or the snow-white blossoms had ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"... might make a wife of some well- tochered maiden in May fair." Mr Venables
spoke the truth; nor did his sagacity and his knowledge of the world deceive ..."
6. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1886)
"An ever I hae goud, Well tochered sail ye be.' 12 He 's awa to Fair Annie, As
fast as gan could he : ' О will ye come to my marriage ? The morn it is to be. ..."
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