licht
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She saw the licht in the window, and she cried, ‘Hie, you billies in the windmill, the sojers is coming!’
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Weel, the first chance I got I asked Robert aboot it, an' he juist laughed an' made licht o't.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
"I thank ye for your licht, ladie, Sae do I for your coal;10 But there's thrice as fair a ladie as thee Meets me at Brandie's well."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
You an' me made licht o't; but Joe wadna be convinced, an' last nicht he saw the lady again, an'—noo, Maister Weelum, this is the queer bit o' the story—the lady was Miss Stuart.'
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
We hove the ship to, as they ca't, and fired guns every two or three minutes, in hopes the lads in the boat wad hear; and sair and sadly we langed for the morning licht.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
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