sicht
Britishnoun
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Ay, we had them in a manner o’ speaking, no doubt, but they’re as completely lost sicht o’ as a flagon lid that’s fallen ahint the dresser.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
There was nawthing in sicht, nawthing to mar the glories of the morn.
From Tam o' the Scoots by Edgar Wallace
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 Patrick Buchan
I’ll keep out o’ sicht, and naebody will ken.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
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
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