Example Sentences

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Weel, time gaed by: and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly o’ that black business. 

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I leaned my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree; But first it bowed, and syne it brak, Sae my true Love did lichtly me.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

That's the rub, an' no to be spoken o' lichtly.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

You may be sure I got the doctor quick, for I'm niver one that would lichtly a pain, as ye might say, but he couldn't find anything wrong.

From The Setons by Douglas, O.

“Gin that be true,” says James the Rose,“We’ll no come meikle speed;We’ll cry upo our merry men,And lichtly mount our steed.”

From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew