sicht
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Eh, mon!" said Muir, lapsing into the broad Scotch he was so fond of using when enjoying himself, "ye'll see the sicht o' yer life the day.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Young, Samual Hall
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
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)
The roup was no a week after; an', oh, it was a grievous sicht to see hoo the crop an' the cattle went for just naething.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
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