maist
Americanadjective
determiner
Example Sentences
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It’s as he says now, I doubt, about maist things.”
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
I was maist angered wi’ you on yer muther’s account.
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
In a day or twae, or a week at maist, ye'll be up an' aboot again.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
“Si maist dieu,” fait gallehault, “ie ne scay.”
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
"It's no unlikely," said I; "I ken the maist o' the leevin folks o' the parish, and my faither kens a' the dead anes."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
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