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He answered: 'It was I and my brother, who were ready to have waired our lives with the King in his defence.'

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George

Scots was waired out and employed upon my house.

From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord

As for the rapier, nae doubt it sits wi’ your degree; but an I had been you, I would hae waired my siller better gates than that.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Your bonnie face sae mild and sweet His honest heart enamours, And faith ye’ll no be lost a whit, Tho’ waired on Willie Chalmers.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert