"Lief" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up his fists and edged up to Mr. Hardhand, fully determined to execute his threat if he repeated the offensive expression, or any other of a similar import. He was roused to the highest pitch of anger, and felt as though he had just as lief die as live in defence of his mother's ...
— Now or Never - The Adventures of Bobby Bright • Oliver Optic
... has the very hardest heart on earth; I had as lief turn to the Friar's school And knock for ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight
... It's no trouble to me to sing. I'd just as lief do it as not; only it seems foolish for me to sing when there are so many older people with ...
— Patty in Paris • Carolyn Wells
... answer, as beseem'd Thy fealty, nor like a noble knight: For surer sign had follow'd, either hand, Or voice, or else a motion of the mere. This is a shameful thing for men to lie. 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 ...
— Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy - Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls • Various
... lief tell you what, Norton; only it is something you don't care about, and it would give you ...
— Trading • Susan Warner
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