Brave Forbes to his brither did say, "Noo brither, dinna ye see?
O gin ye ha a brither on earth That ye love better nor me, Ye blaw the horn yoursel," he says, "For ae blast I winna gie.
Oh no, oh no, mybrither dear, The clans they are ower strang, An they drive back our merry men, Wi swords baith sharp an lang.
They hae gard fill up ae punch-bowl, And after it they maun hae anither, And thus the night they a' hae spent, Just as they had been brither and brither.
Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner Auld comrade dear, andbrither sinner, How's a' the folk about Glenconner?
Ye are as like my ae brither As ever I did see; But he's been buried in yon kirkyaird It's mair than years is three.
Her father led her doon the close, An her brither John set her on her horse.
Her brither he cam trippin doun the stair, His steps they were fu slow; He sank into his sister's arms, And they died as white as snaw.
Sae maun ye ask my sister Anne: And dinna forget my brither John.
It is the bluid o my brither John, Mother lady, mother lady: It is the bluid o my brither John, And the truth I have told to thee.
Oh brither dear, take me on your back, Carry me to yon kirk-yard, And dig a grave baith wide and deep, And lay my body there.
He socht her frae her sister Anne, But he forgot her brither John.
Eh down and O down 2 And we began our seven years wark, To sew our brither John a sark.
His mither she has made his bed, His gentle ladie laid him down, His brither he has unbent his bow, 'T was never bent by him again.
Ye must take with you your ain brither John; It's not meet for maidens to venture alone.
You may seek me frae my sister Anne, But no, no, no frae my brither John.
Quhare quhylum his brither Johnnie lay, Fell Archie upon his knees; The words he said I dinna say, But I'm sure they warna lees.
To my brither John Oh, lat me atone-- An' to mair I cud name Gien I'd time to tak blame!
They do say that it's because mybrither has gotten an English wife.
I hae sat oot in the plantin' mony a nicht greetin' for my brither Jamie, for he had a sair cough and dwined awa', naked and starved.
On the morning after this happened the younger brither took out the knife to look at it, and he was grieved to find it a' brown wi' rust.
Says the bull till her: "Yonder we maun be the night, for my second brither lives yonder"; and they were at the place directly.
I was told," said Mike, "that there was a man hereabouts that looked so much like me he must be my lost brither that was let out of jail in Boston a fortnight since.
But the same is becooming to me, as Jim Flannery said whin he walked into church wid two black eyes and his head bent out of shape from the shindy he had with his twin brither over the quistion of aiting maat on Friday.
The "brither Scots" were working to a previously arranged programme, the present item being to smoke a cigar in the golden ball on the top of St. Paul's Cathedral.
My cruel britherwill you betray On the dowie banks o' Yarrow.
Brither Elgood" took the head of the table, and beamed upon his companions with cherubic good-nature, while his brother sat on his left, immersed in thought and his dinner.
They hae gard fill up ae punch-bowl, 145 And after it they maun hae anither, And thus the night they a' hae spent, Just as they had been brither and brither.
Lang mayst thou live on the Border syde, 115 Or thou se thy brither ryde up and doun.
Auld comrade dear, and brither sinner, How's a' the folk about Glenconner?
Unknown, his eyes blazing with indignation, 'I'm brither to the corpp.
Dissentient Liberalism is dead; but JOE is brither to the corpp, and we must bear with him a little.
Below's my mither's hoosie sma', The smiddy by the byre Whaur aye my feyther dings awa' And my brither blaws the fire.
I canna believe you; for our royal brither Solomon hath said, that if a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants shall be wicked.
Oh brither dear, take me on your back, Carry me to yon kirk-yard, And dig a grave baith wide and deep.
Oh brither dear, take me on your back, Carry me to yon burn clear, And wash the blood from off my wound, And it will bleed nae mair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brither" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
