Put our awin lawis to executioune; Upon transgressouris mak punitioune; To cruell folk seik na remissioune; For peace and justice let us pray, In dreid sum strange new institutioune Cum, and our custome put away.
Thai had no dreidthan of the King, For thai of hym herd no tithing All thai thre dais befor and mair; 380 Tharfor sekir and trast thai war.
Na us thar dreid thame bot befor; 300 "For strynth of this place, as yhe se, "Sall let us enveronyt to be.
And for thai war sa feill that thair 435 Flede under the castell war, The King Robert, that wes witty, Held ay his gude men neir him by, For dreid that ris againe suld thai.
And quhen the Inglis men him saw Cum on, forouten dreid or aw, 555 And tak sa hardely the playne, In hy thai sped thame him agane, And strak with spuris the stedis stith, That bar thame evyn hard and swith.
Fot nocht-for-thi with al thar mycht Thai dang on thame so hardely, That all thair fayis had gret ferly, 150 That thai war all of sic manheid, That thai no dreid had of thar dede.
Bot thouch thai quheyne war, thai war wicht, And, for-outen dreid or effray, In twa battelis thai tuk the way Toward Cragfergus it to se.
I dreid that his gret vassalage, "And his travell will bring til end "That at men quhile full litill wend.
Fyrst than the grysly dreid about me start; Astonyst I wolx, for sone prent in myne hart The ymage of my deir fader, quhen I The kyng his evyneild beheld sa cruelly By deidly wound ȝaldand vp the spreit.
Quhen to the commonys eris ran the sown Of thir wordis, with myndis affrayit, atanys The cauld dreid ran in throu thar banys, For feir quhamto was schape this destanye, 5 Or quho it was Apollo desyrit to die.
The cald dreid maid all my membris quaik, 10 And for effeir my blude togidder fresyt.
The worthy Scottis feill Inglissmen thai slew; The laiff for dreid fled to the toun agayn.
I will no mor allayne to my luff gang; ‘Tak tent to me, or dreid we suffer wrang.
Halyday said; ‘We sall do your consaille; ‘Bot sayr I dreid or thir hurt horss will fayll.
Rychard Lundy had gret dreid off thar schoyr; 600 He likyt nocht for to cum to thar pess, For thi in Fyff thai wald nocht lat him cess.
Indeed she is a frien o' mine, mem; and I hae never a dreid o' onything happenin ye wadna like.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dreid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
