She has no sympathies with the past, that even yet is loth to quit its hold of the soil and of those who are bred upon it.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The moose sometimes calls just before dusk and just before sunrise; but the bull is more wary at such times, and very loth to show himself in the open.
"Ways of Wood Folk"
William J. Long
The Church of England cannot touch her own Prayer Book, whether to mend or to mar it, except with the consent of that very mixed body, the House of Commons-a consent she is naturally and properly most loth to ask.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington