It's her faither that did me the kindness whan I was in Halifax that I'll never forget, an' it's weel pleased I am to meet them.
Maybe if ye wad tell him aboot this man Plaisted, it micht keep him frae daein' yer faither ony mischief.
I am to hae met ye the day, an' is yer faitheras smart as ever?
With the four hundred pounds which my faither left me, I began business as a linen manufacturer--that is, as a maister weaver, on what might be called a respectable scale.
But, notwithstanding my mother's admonitions, my faither certainly was a very simple man.
Had your faither not married me when he did, he would hae died a beggar, instead o' leaving ye what he did.
Be it remembered, however, that his faither before him left him near to three thousand, and that was an uncommon fortune in those days, a fortune I may say that my faither might have made his bairns dukes by.
But yerfaither is aboot finished wi' the web, and ye shall hae plenty the nicht.
Ye are your faither owre again, every one o' ye--each one more simple than another.
At ony rate ye will never be the 'sponsible sober man your faither is.
God knows I am as good a Liberal as ever voted for what Maister Gladstone said was right--yes, me and my faither before me.
I ance got a cup when I wasna weel, frae the farmer's wife that my faither lives wi'.
Her faither had a small farm which joined on with one that I took a lease o', when I was about one-and-twenty.
Her faither and mither gied their consent without the slightest hesitation.
These things are a great satisfaction to a faitherwhen he finds them in the lad that his dochter wishes to marry.
Did ye no see him this day, bairn, laid by the side o' his faither amang the saft mould o' Death's Croft?
Mrs Donaldson, addressing her first-born, "is yer faither crazed!
It was taken for yir faither before the gloamin' settled doon on you and me, ma laddie.
Ma faither aye took a drappy ilka nicht, haudin' his bonnet in his haun' the while.
My faither cudna thole them, an' he cudna bide ony ither body to thole them.
So think o' yir mother as aye true to yir faither, and it'll mebbe help yir sorrow to ken there's aye this bond between yir faither and her wha bore ye.
I ken fine a' ye say is true, but he's yir faither for a' that.
But in the house, if "faither was in," they were quiet as mice.
Your faither is a great man, my dear, and it's no for me or you to be judging him.
Remember, yourfaither is a hard man, reaping where he hasna sowed and gaithering where he hasna strawed.
My faither was a consistent man in walk and conversation; just let slip an aith, and there was the door to ye!
Ye're to honour faither and mother, dear, that your days may be long in the land.
It would be telling us all, if we behaved ourselves in our several stations the way your faither does in his high office; and let me hear no more of any such disrespectful and undutiful questions!
I told you what your faither would think of it, if he heard ye had fallen into this dreidful sin; and let you and me pray to God that ye may be keepit from the like temptation or strengthened to resist it!
Weel, she was born six months after her faither went awa', and I think she's our favorite among them a'.
He sat him doon, and was content to live upon us--faither and me, old and worn out though he knew we were.
I would no ha' liked to be herfaither when he learned that.
Are ye thinkin', maybe, that I'd a faither to send me to college and gie me masters to teach me to sing my songs, and to play the piano?
He'll ne'er ha' to work as a laddie as hisfaither did before him," I used to say.
Had her faither stood by her--but, who kens, who kens?
My faither deed, puir man, when I was but a bairn of eleven--he was but thirty-twa himself.
But, as my gude auld faither used to say, 'The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.
My gude auld faither used often to say to us, 'Boys, ye mauna be cruel to the dumb beasts, and when ye gang a fishing, be sure to let the wee fish gae.
The bit callant is no my ain, but a neebor's son that we adopted frae pity, seeing his mither is puir, and his faither was lost at sea.
My faither before me lived in that bit housie out yonder amang the trees, and he used aften to say, gude auld man!
It was clear that both Harry and me could not gang through the college on the little my faither had left.
It was the year my faither died, and left Harry and me by our lane.
Faither saith it maketh saucy rogues o' sons to know more than they's own dads.
And where would you have been, my lad, if once on a day your faither had not telled your mither that she was bonny?
Thaa said, "Never mind, thaa's no need to tell mi faither that; thaa can keep it to thisel.
Thi faither run off, half dressed as he were, for th' doctor.
But thi faither never puts thee i' th' cellar hoile when thaa's naughty, does he?
I made thi faither strike a leet, and then I see'd Billy's een were set, and his little mouth twitchin'.
Did yo' ever read what her faither put o'er th' top o' th' stone?
Since thi faither deed, Jimmy, I've felt to need thee more and more.
Happen if I tell yo' yo'll laugh at me, as my faither does.
I've nobbud come up to see thi faitherabaat some flaars," aw stuttered.
So when the priest cam' to oor hoose aince, I made sae bold as to get him to ask my faither to buy me a bonnet for Sundays, next time he went to the toon o' Aberdeen.
My faither wouldna' ha' done it for me, but he did when the priest askit him, and I got my bonnet!
But now my faither forbids me to speak to ye; and I maun obey him.
Ask her if she threw ony bluid on my faither's coat on that awfu nicht when yer faither was murdered?
Flora," returned he, "I deny altogether that what yourfaither says is correct.
His faither was a Scotchman, and had been born among them; and they were anxious to like him, if he would only put it in their power to do it.
It was wranging her to ca' her a persecutor; for though she was an advocate for Episcopacy, as her faither had taught her to be, there wasna a sentiment in her heart that could hae wranged a worm.
But, Tam, that wasna the gate ye wad hae spoken to yer auld faither afore ye gaed frae hame.
He is nae langer hideous to me; and, being his friend, I canna be my dochter's faither and guardian!
I wad hae ye to understand that his faitherdoesna make his money sae easily--no by sitting on a seat, or walking up and down a room--as ye do.
Certes, if Jeremy likit he could buy up the Yarrows ten times ower, faither and son!
There will hae been an accident," she faltered, her tongue almost refusing its office, "your faither must have been thrown!
Oh, when I showed it to Tom Jardine he used exactly the same words as you did; but, said he, "My faither signed that.
She aince telt me that it was bred in the bane, for her faither was a colourin'-man in a waxcloth factory aboot Kirkcaldy.
Us hunt in couples, faither says--like to foxes," declared Richard.
And faitherwants for you and Rhoda to come up this moment.
What she saw in your faither to tak' him I dinna ken ony mair than I ken hoo it cam' to pass that I am the mistress o' Walter Skirving's hoose the day.
A man that gangs to the Black Bull disna care a flee's hin' leg what his faither wad hae said.
Whaur else should he bide but in the hoose that he was born in, an' his faitherafore him?
The faither o' ye didna change, though his faither garred him mairry a Gilchrist-an' a guid bit lass she was.
We think that ye are a true man, as yer faither was, though sorely he was used by this hoose.
Hoot, tell me gin your faither and you bide thegither withoot ony woman body, did I no hear that yince; is that the case na?
But what I have is at your service, for it was your noble faither that led the faithful into the wilderness on the day o' the Great Apostasy!
I've jist been sayin' to ye whit I mind o' hearin' my faither say to mysel'.
Forbye ye didna get the name o' bein' keen on the theatricals if your faither was parteecular.
She will hae," replied I; "she maun hae, for her faither is in very bad health.
The old skipper regained his wonted health and cheerfulness; and Betty Paterson lived to tell her grandchildren, "she aye said their faither wad be a gentleman, and her words cam true.
My faither kens best what kind o' wine I hae been gettin," replied she.
If my faither likes Margery better'n what he do me, that's his business, not yours.
I'm a wise woman; an' wise I was years an' years afore your faither ever got you.
But what's a faither to a lover--'specially such a sourfaither as mine?
They tell me I was lathered proper by my faither afore I'd grawed two year auld.
The sacred dooty of child-bearin' be now gwaine on, an' at such times even the faither hisself awnly looks a fule.
When you'm my husband, you'll have to tackle faither an' see he doan't cut me away.
Anyway I wonder you dare let your mind go gadding arter a male, seeing what fashion o' man your faither is.
Faither made me some grand crutches frae an' auld chair back.
Niest to faither an' mither an' big brither Wattie I lo'e Auld Jock an' Bobby.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faither" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
