But Salabaetto, being minded to requite her guile with his own, went to her one evening, being bidden to sup and sleep with her, with an aspect so melancholy and dolorous, that he shewed as he had lief give up the ghost.
This is an uncanny place of evil renown, and I had just as lief have nothing to do with it.
Who would have weened that thou that hast been so lief and dear, and thou that art named a noble knight, would betray me for the riches of the sword.
And on the other side,-- "Here sleaps that Blessed one whose lief God help vs all to live That so when time shall be That we this world must lief We ever may be happy With blessed William Paddy.
Bless your heart, child, I'd just as lief remember I was a Blake or even a Weatherby, for that matter.
I'd every bit as lief you'd shoot a lizard at me, an' you ain't jest found it out.
But be danged, my dear, if I wudn' as lief you said, 'Go to blazes!
I would as lief wear a calico dress, and let the little foxes have their mammies to feed them; and I was willing to bet all my money that we would have as much ham, and as many greens next summer as we ever had.
For himself he would as lief wear sackcloth and rusty pots.
Sir Simonde said she might as lief do it since she was betrothed to that good knight and that could never be altered.
It would have been liefto the margrave, had they left it undone.
Stout Siegfried and the maiden now began a play (for this there was no help) which was both lief and loth to Gunther.
Shall I and Botelung's (7) son remain alive and well, it may be lief to you that ye have seen me here.
How lief it was to Gunther, when he heard these words!
Now be ye so bold, as hath been told me, I reck not be it lief or loth to any man, I will gain from you whatso ye have--land and castles shall be subject to my hand.
Lief was it to his wife, when the lady heard the tale aright.
Who would have thought that thou that hast been to me so lief and dear, and that art named a noble knight, wouldest betray me for the riches of the sword.
I remember my Lord Bathurst praising them: but as for reading his books--ma foi, I would as lief go and dive for tripe in a cellar.
But now people believe that the shores which Lief Ericsson found were really the shores of our land, America.
Stories say that one of them, a very daring seaman called Lief Ericsson, sailed and sailed a very long way from his home.
Some people have said, "The story that Lief Ericsson found America cannot be true.
Lief called the land Vinland because of the grapes.
I would as lief anchor a ship near land in the Malay Archipelago as among the Greek islands.
I would as lief undertake to discipline an army of Malays, who, in a good many respects, especially in the handiness with which they use their knives, are a good deal like the Greeks.
If they had just as lief go to Belfast as anywhere else, I'll run up there.
If it were not for getting wet, I should just as lief jump off here as not;" and she swung her arms just as though she intended to take the leap.
I'd just as lief as not they should say I was dying for him.
She knew no other bliss like having Bartley sit down in their own room with her; it did not matter whether they talked; if he were busy, she would as lief sit and sew, or sit and silently look at him as he wrote.
This done, he turned him to me and said, "I had almost as lief you were a coward as a madman.
He was an old campaigner, and would aslief forget his provision of food as his musket.
Ay, an' we mud as lief 'ave it this," he decided placidly.
Egad, I would as lief pay down at once one year's income as to be so uncertainly mulcted.
He might take her word for it, it was more make b'lief than anything else.
I'd as lief have forty as more, if I can have my pick.
My husband has a small bill agin him, and I thought maybe he'd just as lief pay it now as any time.
If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors; and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.
I had as lief be a list of an English kersey as be pil'd, as thou art pil'd, for a French velvet.
They're no use to me now, and I'd as lief be shut of the sight of them.
So I'd as lief be shut of all that collection, supposin' they'd be any benefit to this crathur.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lief" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
