Do we say loath or loathe

loath 377 occurrences

Accordingly they strolled off to an adjoining room and made themselves comfortable in a retired corner, Gifford, nothing loath to have a quiet chat with the handsome girl whose self-possessed manner with its suggestion of underlying strength of feeling was beginning to fascinate and intrigue his imagination.

He strolled out one afternoon, aimlessly, wondering whether the negative result of his efforts justified his remaining in the place, and yet loath to leave it, held there as he was by the attraction of Edith Morriston.

Shou'd we shew each her own partic'lar Dear, What they admire at home, they wou'd loath here.

Mr. Hazeldene seemed loath to talk about this.

I am loath to disturb the effect of a really touching story; but if I do not occasionally give instances of these conceits, my translations will belie my criticism.]

Dr. Ravenstein, one of the greatest authorities on African cartography, has said: "I should be loath to reject Livingstone's work simply because the ground which he was the first to explore has since his death been gone over by another explorer."

I shall be very loath To say your eyes are twinckling Starres agen, Your lipps twin cherries and out blush the rubie, Your azure veines vye beauty with the Saphire Or that your swelling breasts are hills of Ivory, Pillowes for Jove to rest his amorous head, When my owne Conscience tells me that Bunhill Is worth a hundred on 'em, and but Higate Compar'd with 'em is Paradice.

Yet, truly, there was no use in help that was yet to come; for the need did be then and instant; and I nowise loath to use my strength before my sweet cousin.

But she to turn from me, and she stamped her foot, and went again to the lout; and when she had suffered another dance with him, she bid him be her escort a part of the way; the which he was nothing loath of.

That I know not; indeed I wood be loath to lie though he be my kinsman, to speake more then I know by him.

Incolentibus patria, 'tis their country that are born in it, and they would think themselves banished to go to the place which thou leavest, and from which thou art so loath to depart.

The doses of these, but that they are common in every good physician, and that I am loath to incur the censure of Forestus, lib. 3. cap.

Whereupon loath to make his company tarry at present, there left it, intending to fetch it the next day, or at some more convenient time, went thence to supper, and so to bed.

" Hardy changed the subject, and Nugent, nothing loath, discoursed on his wanderings and took him on a personally conducted tour through the continent of Australia.

And naturally any operatic manager would be loath to refuse an opera signed by Diaz.

The spectators were insistent, and though loath to end the show, the Kid held up the gloved hand of the Mataiean.

The Arii thus got possession of more and more land from time to time, and the Raatira were loath to contend among themselves.

Right loath was Launfal to depart from the pavilion at the vesper hour, and gladly would he have stayed, had he been able, and his lady wished.

Nothing loath, I followed eagerly; and the colored girl proposed that we should have a small baking.

The wind tossed the great flakes up and across and whirled them in circles, as if loath to let them go at all to the ground.

What maidens loath? What mad pursuit?

Loath himself to begin the work, the judge always came to feel, as it progressed, a fussy pride in his artistry; a pride never in the least justified by results.

I remember St. Cyprian tells of a good man who in his agony of death saw a fantasm of a noble and angelical shape, who, frowning and angry, said to him: "Ye can not endure sickness, ye are troubled at the evils of the world, and yet you are loath to die and to be quit of them; what shall I do to you?"

Even though no one was listening, he was loath to voice an inevitable conclusion.

But, Lord! to see how they were both painted, would make a man mad, and did make me loath them: and what base company of men comes among them; and how loudly they talk!

loathe 225 occurrences

Envious you are, and proud, and foes to heaven; Love of your neighbour still you loathe and hate, And only seek what must your ruin be.

You do not care whether I have any love for you or whether I loathe you now.

" "You couldn't loathe me, could you?"

You loathe and fear the serpent in this basket, as I loathe and fear the serpent which is in you."

You loathe and fear the serpent in this basket, as I loathe and fear the serpent which is in you."

A nation swoln with ignorance and pride, Who lick, yet loathe, the hand that waves the sword To save them from the wrath of Gaul's unsparing lord.

Loathe it as you would the leprosy.

With you I have run down and captured German agents, wretched lumps of dirt, whom I loathe as much as you do.

Those who have sworn fidelity to this fair country of England, and have accepted of her citizenshipthings which I have never doneand then in fancied security have spied upon their adopted Mother, I loathe and spit upon.

" I thought as I walked where the garden glowed In the sunset's level fire, Of the Charlatan whom the Frenchmen loathe

And I know of no great wars, much as I loathe and detest them, and severely and justly as they may be reprobated, which have not been overruled for the ultimate welfare of society.

She scorn'd thee once, but now she will detest And loathe to look upon thy dark'ned face; Ah me, most miserable Polyphemus!

Thou and thy friends, and I will loathe thee for't.

She knew, in spite of all his kindness, that there was that in her face and form which made him loathe the sight of her.

I loathe hanging round and hearing the fools rant about my stuff and wonder what the devil I meant by this or that or if I didn't mean anything.

It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy, that man can hold property in man.

" "I'm fond enough of her when she is sober; but I loathe her when she is fuddled.

Old Man Anderson had grown to loathe Detroit Jim.

We are at heart commercial Puritans all the time; we loathe experiments and originality and independence; we think that God rewards respectability, because we believe that material rewardswealth, comfort, positionare the only things worth having.

A modern lover would loathe the idea of such a trial marriage, because he feels sure that his love will be eternal and unalterable.

Oh, I loathe the old apothecary.

From the bottom of my soul, I loathe and detest the Vestiges.

I loathe the very thought; if I consent I know I shall regret the act as long as I live."

They loathe waste.

I wish for nothing better than to have himhim only!and to-day, until I met youtill you made me loathe myself and you, and every living thingit seemed to me as if all the world had suddenly grown bright and happy and good at the news of his coming.

Do we say   loath   or  loathe