Renege on a wager

Usage examples of welsh.

But Henry had no mind to break through his general policy by allowing a feudal baronage to plant themselves by force of arms in Ireland, as they had in earlier days settled themselves in northern England and on the Welsh border.

Cai managed to piece together that Margaron was a Welsh name meaning pearl.

Now, Taliesin, a famous Welsh bard of the sixth century, locates this purifying metempsychosis in the Hell of Christianity, whence the soul gradually rises again to felicity, the way for it having been opened by Christ!

In point of fact, Rhys was fluent in both city and country French as well as Welsh, Cree, Aleut, and a few more languages, including the officialese in which he was expected to write his reports.

When the rains finally let up, Judith had just crested a small hillock that her topographics identified as an outher of the Welsh Mountains.

He faced his financial embarrassments with characteristic pluck, but it was a dark hour in the annals of British finance far beyond the boundaries of the Principality, amidst which came the sensational failure of the Overend and Gurney Bank, and, so far as the Welsh Coast Railway in particular was concerned, the interminable legal wrangles not only cost money, but postponed the hour at which the line could earn its keep.

But there is no lack of evidence to prove that common agriculture was practised among some Teuton tribes, the Franks, and the old Scotch, Irish, and Welsh.

When the fire crackled cheerfully, I dropped the first herb into it, reciting the Welsh words I barely understood.

CHRONICLE of the Land of Prydain is not a retelling or retranslation of Welsh mythology.

Land of Prydain is not a retelling or retranslation of Welsh mythology.

I lit a pipe, but let it go out, for my attention was held by the shoreless ocean in the west, against which the scarp of the Welsh hills showed in a dim silhouette.

There was an inscription on the barrel in squat uncial letters, but it was written in what looked like Welsh.

I could see nothing, but certainly thought that that unclerical little Welsh pony, Jenkins, was there.

She wore the same smiling expectant and inviting expression that Thyra had shown him and which he had seen upon the face of the dark Welsh girl who had named herself Nikky to him before they were truly wedded in the enclosure of the vitrified fort in Britain.

Europe scientific tests have proven that the Andalusian contributed to the development of the Connemara, the Cleveland Bay, the Friesan, the Hackney, the Percheron, the Thoroughbred, and the Welsh.