Agitation resulting from active worry.
1 I'm about to swither and prevaricate for a bit when my phone rings again.
2 What signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither ?
3 Strong cruel brutes, they did not swither a moment, but both leaped at M'Iver's throat.
4 It found Janet still "in a swither . " She could not divest herself of the idea that she was forsaking "the bairns."
5 Before the afternoon the air was dark with a swither of foam and spray blown off the waves in the thickness of a fog.
6 Then, very abruptly, fixing his eyes on me, all of a swither , with my milk-stained cap in my hand, "And whom have we here?"
7 If I hae swithered in my loyalty before, I'll do sae nae mair.
8 She has a rich relation up at Thayetmyo, and she's swithering between love and money.
9 But I was equally keen on books, reading and the associated pleasures, and hence swithered between museums and publishing.
10 Indeed he was " swithering " whether, or not, he should take this opportunity of bidding farewell to Pittenloch.
11 Swithers thinks she knows.
12 "I wish you had been so certain of that a little ago," she said; "you seem very much on the swither .
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