fecht

The very next Sabbath morning he stood straight up in the pulpit and pulled at his cuffs as if he was peeling for a "fecht" -- and so he was.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

The struggle for souls had always been what his father would have called 'a sair fecht ', and the fecht had become a lot sairer in the past thirty years.

Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

The struggle for souls had always been what his father would have called 'a sair fecht ', and the fecht had become a lot sairer in the past thirty years.

Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

The struggle for souls had always been what his father would have called 'a sair fecht ', and the fecht had become a lot sairer in the past thirty years.

Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

As our old nurses would have said, ` a sair fecht '.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

As our old nurses would have said, ` a sair fecht '.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

"And then ye had a sair fecht on politics wi 'anither man in the coffee-room."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

"They're aye gude to fecht or march on," he said, "an 'we're like eneuch to hae baith to thole or ere we win hame again."

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

Forbye, they foucht when the chief bade them fecht.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

Ronald o 'Glendown -- which, as ye ken, Miss Marjory, lies no sae far frae here -- he an' his eldest son, the young Ronald, went awa to fecht, leavin 'his wife, the bonnie Leddy Flora, an' his youngest son at hame

Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke