"Leef" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... creeping; But that if a louse could have leapen the better, She had not walked on the welt, so was it threadbare. 'I have been Covetise,' quoth this caitiff, 'For sometime I served Symme at style, And was his prentice plight, his profit to wait. First I learned to lie, a leef other twain Wickedly to weigh, was my first lesson: To Wye and to Winchester I went to the fair With many manner merchandise, as my master me hight.— Then drave I me among drapers my donet[2] to learn. To draw the lyfer along, the longer it seemed ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... heah! Leef me be!" screamed Dinah, and catching up a handful of wooden plates she threw them at the cow. They rattled on the animal's horns, and then, with another "Moo!" the creature turned and crashed back through ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook • Laura Lee Hope
... house arount at halluff past dree. But YOU coom, mit yourselluff alone, shoost as if you vos spazieren gehen, for a valk, by dat fence at dree! Ven you shall dot front door vide open see, go in, and dere you vos! You vill der rest leef to me!" ...
— Stories in Light and Shadow • Bret Harte |
