Sewyn of yow feris graith sone, and ga with me; “Rycht sor I long Sanct Jhonstoun for to se.
Vndyr ane ayk, wyth men about him set: 75 Wallace mycht nocht a graith straik on him gett: Yeit schede he thaim, a full royd slope was maid.
He gert graith him in soit with his awin men; Was no man thar that mycht weill Thomas ken.
Apon the morn thai graith thaim to the ar; And furth thai ryd, quhill thai come to Kingace.
Fawdoun was left besid thaim on the land; The power come, and sodeynly him fand: For thair sloith hund the graith gait till him yeid, 135 Off othir trade scho tuk as than no heid.
Bot tent thar to the Inglissmen tuk nan; Doune neth thai held, graith gydys can thaim leyr, Abon Closburn Wallace approchyt ner.
The schipman sayis; “Rycht weill ye may him ken, “Throu graith takynnys, full clerly by his men.
Vpon the crage a graith straik gat him rycht; The burly blaide was braid and burnyst brycht, 965 In sonder kerwyt the mailyeis off fyne steyll, Throwch bayne and brawne it prochyt euirilkdeill; Dede with that dent to the erd doun him draiff.
In Sir William Wallace's days there was nae man pinned down to sic a slavish wark as a saddler's, for they got ony leather graith that they had use for ready-made out of Holland.
Fyfty damycellis tharin seruyt the queyn, Quhilkis bair the cure eftir thar ordour haill, On purvyance of howshald and vittaill, 20 To graith the chalmeris, and the fyris beld.
And fyrst Eneas gan hys ferys command Thar baneris to displayt and follow at hand, Thar curage eik and curace to addres, And graith thame for the batail all expres.
And, eftir thir, ane Amycus he slew, That bayn had beyn to wild bestis enew; Was nane other mair happy nor expert To graith and til invnct a castyng dart, 30 And with vennom to garnys the steil hedis.
Sum spedis to graith hait watir bissely In caldronys playand on the fyre fast by: The cald ded corps is weschin and invnct, 15 Embalmyt with rich gummys euery junct.
Gif thou depart, and forthir quhat wald thou do, In wyntir sesson pres graith thi navy, lo!
Graith was one of the most illustrious missioners who laboured in our Irish Church during the sixteenth century; and, as Peter Lombard informs us, was at one time the only bishop in the province of Munster.
Graith was visited by the Franciscan Father Mooney, who in his History of the Order, commemorating this visit, describes the bishop as "vir valde prudens et in rebus agendis versatus".
Graith shared the perils of their camp, ministering to them the comforts of religion.
Any woman who began this essay thinking that Graith was a new perfume,--any man who said to himself "Stroom?
Yet, centuries ago, Stroom and Graith were on every one's tongues.
The graith thou me tell, Of what myddel-erde man Myght I best lerne 70 My Crede?
Be mine in Highland graith array'd, With weapon trim the glens to tread, And rise a stag of foremost head, Then let him tent my culiver.
But your father donned his war graith and rode with me to the house of Culzean, where he yet abides.
I had cleaned my own graith and oiled the pistols--which I regularly did on the Sabbath morning whenever I did not go to the kirk at Maybole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "graith" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
