licht
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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
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
Weel, the first chance I got I asked Robert aboot it, an' he juist laughed an' made licht o't.
From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing
I laugh a lot, for 'werena ma hert licht I wad dee.'
From The Setons by Douglas, O.
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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