I'd as lief let yew go thar 'stid o' me; fer I know very well that's what yew're a-layin' out fer ter do.

"I would as lief go there as anywhere," Harry Esmond said, simply, "for there is nobody to care for me.

seven years afterand I had as lief be hanged.

In very truth, sir, I'd as lief be hanged, sir, as to go; and yet for mine own part, sir, I do not care; but rather because I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, have a desire to stay with my friends; else, sir, I did not care, for my own part, so much.

"Ef I was goin' to scrap wid anybody," he said to Mr. Carstairs, "I'd as lief tie meself up wid dumb-bells as take to carry all this stuff on me.

Why I'd just as lief command your army as not, and" "Thank you very much," said the Corn-cob Queen, "but what would Captain Jinks say to that?

Well, when I asked him if he'd cut off my head, he said he'd just as lief as not!" All three children burst out laughing.

Yet now, I charge thee, quickly go again, As thou art lief and dear, and do the thing I bade thee, watch, and lightly bring me word.

" [Footnote 5: Lief is an old word meaning beloved.

17.With an adverb of comparison or preference, as better, rather, best, as lief, or as lieve, the auxiliary had seems sometimes to be used before the infinitive to form the potential imperfect or pluperfect: as, "He that loses by getting, had better lose than get.

"I had as lief say.

"I had as lief go as not.

" Webster's Dict., w. Lief.

These are equivalent to the phrases, might better losemight better have been substitutedwould as lief saywould rather forgetmight much better saywould much rather showwould rather speakhow much rather he would bewould as lief goshould best leavemight he best take; and, for the sake of regularity, these latter forms ought to be preferred, as they sometimes are: thus, "For my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy.

These are equivalent to the phrases, might better losemight better have been substitutedwould as lief saywould rather forgetmight much better saywould much rather showwould rather speakhow much rather he would bewould as lief goshould best leavemight he best take; and, for the sake of regularity, these latter forms ought to be preferred, as they sometimes are: thus, "For my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy.

The dissenting opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes; arranged, with introductory notes, by Alfred Lief, with a foreword by George W. Kirchwey.

Alfred Lief (A); 9Jan57; R184280. HOLT, BARBARA R. Cavender's house.

LIEF, ALFRED.

Representative opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes, arranged with introductory notes, by Alfred Lief, with a foreword by Harold J. Laski.

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James Waterman Wise (A); 31Mar59; R234109. LIEF, ALFRED, ed.

Alfred Lief (A); 6May69; R461047.

Alfred Lief (A); 3Oct66; R394821. LIMBOUR, GEORGES.

They've murdered men afore to-night, and they would just as lief slip up here and cut your wizen as they would ate a piece of macaroni.

" I had quite as lief, in my present state of mind, touch a yard-long wriggling ground-worm, or a fat wood-louse, as paper that his fingers have pressed; but I overcome my repulsion, and unfold the note.