sicht
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Dear me, man," said he, taking hold of the stranger's arm with the one hand, and a broom with the other, "ye'll need hauf-an-hoor's soopin afore we get a sicht o' ye.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
Then, Jock, a sicht I saw, so strange and awfie, Unseen, unheard o', and unlawfie!
From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Flint, Violet
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 Fischer, Anton Otto
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
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 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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