licht
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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
Oh, black sorrow tak that leddy!" cried Nelly, wringing her hands; "what tempted her to be my first-foot?—or what tempted me to gie her a licht?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
“The moon is shinin’ so brichtly, I had expected to meet ye on the muir, gatherin’ herbs by its ghastly licht.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
I never saw the maitter in that licht before.—Weel,
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
Do ye imagine that onybody is gaun to gie ye out a licht the first thing on a New-year's morning?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
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