lyart

Tho 'lyart be my locks and gray, auld age has crook't me doon, what matter,

Lady Keith's Lament 1998

Age is so frequently dotage, that when a veteran appears who preserves the heart of a boy and the happy audacity of youth, under the 'lyart haffets wearing thin and bare' of aged manhood, it seems as if there is something supernatural about it, and all men feel the fascination and the charm.

The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

I soothly think, ere it be spun, I 'll wear a lyart pow.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

But now, wae 's my heart! whan I 'm lyart an' auld,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

His lyart [34] haffets [35] wearing thin an 'bare;

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

Age is so frequently dotage, that when a veteran appears who preserves the heart of a boy and the happy audacity of youth, under the 'lyart haffets wearing thin and bare' of aged manhood, it seems as if there is something supernatural about it, and all men feel the fascination and the charm.

The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook

Though lyart we've grown since they frae us were ta'en;

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

His lyart [324-46] haffets [324-47] wearing thin an 'bare:

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Commend to me on all occasions the man or woman who, "with lyart haffets thin and bare," can sing with the poet --

Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

Bandsters10 are lyart, 11 and runkled, 12 and gray; 10

Lament for Flodden 1909