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Example sentences for "loth"

Lexicographically close words:
lost; loste; lot; lota; lote; lothe; lothsome; lotion; lotions; loto
  1. A girl is glad, When in the bridal room she lies, with flowery candles burning, and she is loth to rise at morn.

  2. So loth are you, however, at present to fork out any cash that you've egged them on to come and worry me!

  3. But should she be loth to have any, well, never mind, it won't be of any consequence.

  4. Although therefore she was to have remained present all day at the theatrical performance, she promptly returned home soon after noon, and the next day she felt very loth to go out of doors again.

  5. That it would certainly come to this with some of the customers of the True Blue was evident: one man was especially loth to go.

  6. Some hidden fear, some doubt which he was loth to express more plainly, prompted the old man's words.

  7. It touched even him, and he was not readily touched by anything; it made him loth to say the word that would drive all that sweet expression so quickly and completely away.

  8. They lingered a little while after he was gone, standing round the fire as if loth to part, but in grave silence, each busy with his own thoughts.

  9. The man was very loth to obey me, but at last I managed to persuade him.

  10. I was very loth to leave my host and hostess in their present dilemma, but there was no help for it, and soon after breakfast I took my leave.

  11. You know I am consistent with myself, and loth to go, whenever disagreeable business drags me to Rome.

  12. I should be loth indeed to belong to yonder herd.

  13. Hugh was called upon to tell his experiences as a scholar in the city, and was nothing loth to do so.

  14. His father, he averred, was very loth to press matters to extremity; but he would sooner draw the sword and die wielding it, than see his country brought a second time under the yoke of papal tyranny and foreign greed.

  15. But a sudden raid might win it for the King of the West, and the Duke of Paris would be nothing loth to help to make such an addition to the Kingdom which he meant one day to possess.

  16. Her vitality was almost exhausted, and yet Nature was loth to give up.

  17. And now, as I hold the pen for these writings, my hand is loth and my spirit is not fain to tell of the strange humors of these times.

  18. But I am loth to set down my little foolish formalities on sitting to meat and rising from it, and the silly ceremonies wherewith I indulged myself at going abroad and coming home.

  19. M790) The king, he said, had been very loth to take action against the City, but had been driven to do so by the recent elections.

  20. The court, however, seemed loth to re-instate him, and it was not until after the receipt of a letter from secretary Nicholas and a writ of restitution had been issued that it consented (21 Sept.

  21. At the same time Bob was rather loth to leave his brother to deal with the enemy alone, in case they managed in some unimaginable way to cross the river.

  22. Loth as he was to destroy or maim the unoffending beasts, he felt that this was not an occasion for half measures: there was too much at stake.

  23. Loth as he was to disturb his brother's rest, he felt instinctively that the news brought by Ganda Singh was to affect their destinies vitally.

  24. Cabeza de Vaca was essentially a humanitarian Governor, who proved himself extremely loth to employ coercion and the sword, which means, in fact, he only resorted to with extreme reluctance as a very last resource.

  25. The home authorities invariably appeared loth to take into account the possibility of human enterprise.

  26. I would be loth to lose so promising a lad!

  27. I am loth to cause a harmless peasant to be slain.

  28. I am loth to let thee walk, but as there is but one horse between two knights, 'tis better that neither ride.

  29. One morning for leave he prayed him, from Graharz he fain would ride, And his host, sore loth to lose him, awhile rode his steed beside.

  30. The other children joined in the petition; grandma put in a word of approval, and mamma finally consented, if the truth were told nothing loth to give, or to share the treat.

  31. I should be loth to have him drawn into intimacy with Boyd or Foster, but as he likes neither their conduct nor their principles, I have little fear of that.

  32. Little wife, I am loth to have you exposed to the heat of this sultry day.

  33. I, for my part, at any rate, shall be very loth to dwell upon them.

  34. Well," he persisted, "considering how improbable the hypothesis is, I should be very loth to admit that it is one which it is practically necessary to adopt.

  35. O farewell, Simplicity: we are very loth to lose thy company.

  36. Now on a boon[34] voyage let us depart, For I [am] well loth any time to delay.

  37. I would be loth to lose my money, or crave assurance of my kinsman, But this may be done to try me, and I mean likewise to try him.

  38. For people are very loth to admit that the same man can unite very different kinds of excellence.


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