licht
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"We cam' over the heather licht foot as hares," said Kate McGhie.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"Ye're welcome here, my young Redin,5 For coal and candle licht; And sae are ye, my young Redin, To bide wi' me the nicht."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
I doubtna oor midships and after guns was firing, but na the foremost, for Ah dinna mind being blinded by their licht afore the Hun projes gan bursting.
From Sea-Hounds by Lewis R. Freeman
My een lack now their former licht," replied the beadsman, "but if ye, wha are younger, look weel to the east, ye'll see something yonder thicker, I ween, than a munebeam.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
The moon was shining, but no’ very brightly, givin’ a feeble yellow kind o’ a licht through a haze o’ drivin’ clouds.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
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