An' let the puir enjoy their play - I'll thole my paiks.
I can thole a fair and square stan up fecht, but yon's a coward trick.
This is a useful dodge to know of in case one of yourthole pins breaks, as sometimes happens.
Presently the dinghy put off from the reef, the sculls broke the starlit waters and great shaking circles of light made rhythmical answer to the slow and steady creak of the thole pins against the leather.
He tied the end of the fishing-line to a scull, undid the line from the thole pin, and flung the scull overboard.
His threatening I could despise; but ah, his calm, brotherly, flattering way I could not thole with.
I will never forget the first day that I got my regimentals on, and when I looked myself in the glass, just to think I was a sodger who never in my life could thole the smell of powder!
My lord," she said, "I canna tholeto see a man in tribble.
I'll thole the doom that lays me dead, But no a tear frae thee, laddie!
They die when they 're exposed to air, They canna thole the atmosphere; But her!
There is many a sair heart in Portie the night--and folk man just thole whatever is sent, and say nothing.
And mony a bed will I make toom, And bower will I make thin; And mony a babe shall thole the fire, For I may enter in.
O hold your tongue, Lord Livingston, Let a' your mourning be; For I bare the bird between my sides, Yet I maun thole her to die.
He is yet tender ground, and the seed may take root and thrive: and I am tough gnarled old root, that can thole a blow or twain, and a rough wind by now and then.
I could thole no longer, and forth brake I in laughter.
And then you will have more fighting than working on the place; and you'll have to build a Roman-catholic chapel, and have a Roman priest in Crawford, and you ken whether the Crawfords will thole that or not.
Well, uncle, you must just thole it; you know what the New Testament says?
People canna thole blue skies for ever; he'll be wanting the moors and the misty corries and the gray clouds erelong.
I canna thole a minister that preaches as if heaven was round the corner.
I remember as if it were this morning a Harvie fishwife patting your head and asking who was your sweetheart, and I could never thole the woman again.
You had better cross, dominie, and thole out the nicht wi' us.
You've been richt good to me, but I canna thole the thocht o' that place.
First onethole pin broke and then the other and he had to paddle.
There were no oarlocks, but you can make a thole pin with a piece of wood, and that was what Swatty did.
He made thole pins with pieces of driftwood and he pried the skiff down to the ice and slid it to the river, and then he jumped in and began rowing with two pieces of driftwood for oars.
His boat began to leak, and he was forced to abandon her, and for thirty hours to thole the blustering winds and waves that tossed the little cockle-shell, in which they took a last refuge, like a straw upon the billows.
If that be sinful, let me thole the wages of my sin.
No; there was nothing to be done but to thole and be quiet.
Ye canna thole the wind and rain, Or wander friendless far frae hame; Cheer, cheer your heart, some other swain Will soon blot out lost Willie's name.
Blessed be the name of the Lord, that makes us tothole the tribulations of this world, and will reward us, through the mediation of Jesus, hereafter.
But while we were thus standing discoursing on the causey, Mrs Balwhidder and the servant lassies could thole no longer, but in a troop came in quest of me, to hear what was doing.
If't had been a regular boat's oar, I'd a heerd the thumpin' against the thole pins.
And why there is no "thumpin' against thethole pins" is because the oars are muffled.
To thole the dool, to bear the evil consequences of any thing, Ang.
To thole the law, to be subjected to a legal trial.
I could never thole his books,' said my mother immediately, and indeed vindictively.
And tharefor that my Lord considder, and weay it weall, how heychtlie it lyes bayth to my honour and conscience: for yf I thole him, I wilbe accused for all thame that he infectis and corruptis in heresye.
One or other of his thole pins was constantly carrying away.
Hanks heard me speak, and seeing Thole on the deck, he knelt down by his side and took his hand.
Thole showed me the proper marks, and by keeping the two lighthouses on Hurst Point in one, we ran in between the Needles and the shoal of the shingles.
To punish him for killing poor Thole there," answered I, for I felt very bitter against the smugglers for the harm they had done.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thole" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
