His wit gat wings and would hae flown, but pinchin' poortith pu'd him down.
I ken weel, by sad experience, that poortith takes away pith, and the man sits full still that has a rent in his breeks.
The songs to which the poet alludes were "Poortith Cauld," and "Galla Water.
I have vowed to have a song to that air, on the lady whom I attempted to celebrate in the verses, "Poortith cauld and restless love.
O poortith cauld and restless love, Ye wreck my peace between ye; But poortith cauld I well could bear, If it werena for my Jeannie.
Again, in such songs as Of a' the Airts, Poortith Cauld, and others addressed to Jean herself, we have an expression of his less than rapturous but entirely genuine affection for his wife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poortith" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
