Port on Firth of Forth

Usage examples of leith.

Billy wis sayin thit eh once saw that scruff-boy fae Leith, that Spud Murphy, git huckled fir chorin handbags whin eh thoat nae cunt could see wi the smoke machine oan.

He had come north by the Leith packet, and, falling in with Eben Garnock in that port, had been set across the Firth in the summer night, and had reached his destination when the first cocks were crowing in the East Neuk farms.

Dinner hour was sixty poxy minutes, and the Number One bus to Leith and Ards record shop took fifteen minutes there and the same back.

Edinburgh Monsieur Randan sent to Leith Castle to announce that they would call upon the regent for instructions within the week.

I kept view of him till he vanished towards Leith Wynd, and by that time the two strangers had come close up under our window.

In the room of those troops six thousand Hessians were transported from Flanders to Leith, where they arrived in the beginning of February, under the command of their prince, Frederick of Hesse, son-in-law to his Britannic majesty.

He intrenched himself in a fortified camp between Edinburgh and Leith, and took care to remove from the counties of Merse and the Lothians every thing which could serve to the subsistence of the English army.

Eh, see ye in a minute, she goes, headin back oaf the flair where ah sees Billy talkin tae that Renton n this Matty boy fae Leith.

Though Manchester born, my father acted occasionally as an agent for the Leith Glassworks, in which capacity he was required to sail from one Hebridean station to another in search of kelp.

He made two voyages in a sealer of 160 tons, the Jane of Leith, in 1819 and 1822, being accompanied on the second occasion by the cutter Beaufoy.

Leith had taken to calling him Aven around the home, and only half in teasing, Ivor knew.

The nearest cop shop to the flat was Gayfield Square, but additional officers had been drafted jn from Leith, St Leonard's and Torphichen.

Guy's been in the nick fourteen years, and here we are in Leith, Edinburgh's knocking-shop, and he's not interested.

The number plate was the same one he'd seen lipsticked on the wall in Leith.

There was a plan afoot to zone off part of Leith, turn it into a safe area for streetwalkers.