sicht
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Oh, but it was a pleasant sicht to see how carefu he was o' the bairns!—and bonny bairns they were.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
So the young husband and wife went in and out together, “the very sicht o’ them,” as even Mrs Cairnie owned, “doing a body gude as they passed.”
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
I only came to warn ye, so that you may have time tae put your hides way oot o’ their sicht when they come.
From Rim o' the World by Anton Otto Fischer
Ye micht do waur than tak a step doun to Cardross Castle—it's only about seven or aucht miles frae this, and get a sicht o' the King, an' tell him wha ye are.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
There’s Charles Dickson says that the very sicht o’ my uniform rouses his dander so muckle that it makes him break windows, though a peaceably-disposed man till I was appointed.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
