sicht
Britishnoun
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When we cam' in by Glasgow toun, We were a comely sicht to see; My love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysel' in cramasie.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
I’ll keep out o’ sicht, and naebody will ken.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
Lang and sair we lookit for an answer to the signal; ye micht hae heard a whisper, we war sae quiet wi' fear and hope; but there was nowther sicht nor sound in reply.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
But sic a sicht as met puir Inglis een Was ne'er by mortal in this wide warld seen; The hillside, openin' oot, exposed to view Yetts made o' silver, hung on sapphires blue.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick
Archy was a guid-hearted though a fretfu man; and the sicht o' his wife's distress softened him.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
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