Glad and blith thai were that thei had don sa; Thai wolde have thaim to Tibbe, and present hir with tha; The capuls were so wery that thei myzt not ga, But stille can thei stonde.
Maister Jhon Blair was blith off that semblé; 1245 Gud Graym was thair, and Richard off Lunde; Als Robert Boid, that out off But thaim socht.
In Louchmabane prynce Eduuard lewyt still; 935 And Wallace past in Cumno with blith will.
Raturnd agayne, and come till Abirdeyn, With his blith ost, apon the Lammess ewyn; Stablyt the land, as him thocht best suld be.
Schir Amery hame his gate is gane, Richt bliththat he so gat away.
Quhilk he resavit in gret dayntee; 225 Richt blith of that present wes he; For he was swa glad that he wes swa Deliverit of sic felloune a fa.
That nycht rycht weill at eis war thai, And richt blith of the gret honour That thame befell for thair valour.
And thai so wondirly blithwer Of his come, that na toung mycht say; Gret fest and fair till him maid thai.
The Kyng gud counternans thaim maid, 12 That wes richt blith of thair cummyng.
And syne with presoners and catele, Riches, and mony fair jowele, 560 Till Scotland tuk thai hame thar way, Blith and glad, joyfull and gay.
So war thai blith forouten dout; For feill, that wonnyt thaim about, 388 Fra thai the King saw help him swa, Till him thar homage can thai ma.
And quhen his men has herd the King 236 Set him so haill for the fechting, Of his covering all bliththai war, And maid thame for the battale yhar.
That nycht thai blith war and joly For the victory that thai had thar.
And quhen the gud King can thaim se 165 Befor him swa assemblit be, Blith and glad that thair fayis war Sa reboytit, as said wes ar, A litill quhil he held him still, Syne on this wis he said thame till.
Thai fand of all thair cumpany 150 That thar wes bot ane yheman slayn, Than lovit thai God and war full fayn, And blith that thai eschapit swa.
The Erll wes blith of his carping, And hicht him full fair rewardyng; And undirtuk that gat to ga, 580 And bad him soyn his leddir ma, And hald him preve quhill thai mycht Set for thair purpos on ane nycht.
I met Blith at the Duke of Ormond's; and he begged me to carry him to the Duchess of Hamilton, to beg her pardon again.
To turn thar course he gan his feris command, 5 And stevin thar schippis to the sammyn land: Joyfull andblith thai entring in the flude, That dern about skuggyt with bewis stude.
Plesance and joy richt hailsum and perfyte is; So that the wys tharof in proverb wrytis, 20 A blith spreit makis greyn and floryst age.
Be this thai cummyn war onto the town; Quham with blith front, to meyt thame reddy bown, The kyng Latyn with huge cumpany Thame welcumis and festis by and by.
And mayratour, the Tyrryanys halely At the blith ȝettis flokkis to the maniory; And as thai come, thai war down set onone 5 On brusyt or payntit tapetis eueryone.
Blith speaks of an instrument which ploughed, sowed and harrowed at the same time; and the setting of corn was then a subject of much discussion.
The works of Gervase Markham, Leonard Mascall, Gabriel Plattes and other authors of the first half of the 17th century may be passed over, the best part of them being preserved by Blith and Hartlib, who are referred to below.
Blith was a zealous advocate of drainage and holds that drains to be efficient must be laid 3 or 4 ft.
Sir Richard Weston must have cultivated turnips before this; for Blith says that Sir Richard affirmed to himself that he fed his swine with them.
This writer seems to differ a good deal from Blith about the advantage of interchanging tillage and pasture.
Blith was that lady bryght 1670 For to se that {selly} sight: With the knyght went she.
Gentilmen were blith and ffayn~, 1098 That he in helth was comyn~ agayn~.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blith" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
