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
There was a pause, with protests and guttural amusement which were suddenly engulfed in a clarion shout: "Die Freiheit bricht die Ketten!"
From Command by McFee, William
The muckle tides lay lang and still as our ain Loch o' the Lee, and far ayont I saw the big blue hills o' England shine bricht and clear.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John
On ilka side o' Inglis rade a knicht In Lincoln-green, wi' armour burnished bricht; Like stars intil a frosty nicht, the sheen Blinkit like siller in his dazzlet een.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick
On the doorstep he says, wi' a bricht face on him, 'Marget, it's me that needs to thank you, for I get a lesson frae ye every time that I come here.'
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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