bricht
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht,” Nettle called out in Cockney.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
"It's keepit up wonderfu' through the week, for a' never like ower bricht mornin's," old Sandie Ferguson would remark casually, whose arrival, swallow-like, heralded the approach of the great occasion.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
The ingle cheek is bleezin' bricht, The croozie sheds a cheerfu' licht, An' happy hearts are here the nicht, To haud a rantin' rockin'!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
Oot ower the Cruives an' up the Ba'muir park He linkit at it, like some blythesome spark Stendin' alang to woo his winsome Jean, An' beik his love in her bricht glancin' een.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan
Then Lord John mounted his grey steed, 10 And his hound wi' his bells sae bricht, And swiftly he rade to the bonny broom-fields, Wi' his hawks, like a lord or knicht.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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