"Gleg" Quotes from Famous Books
... for this my will is, My mither lies gleg wi' half-closed ee, And bids me beware of faithless billies, Who will steal my heart and ... — Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. • Revised by Alexander Leighton
... It's a queer kin' o' Keiths she's comed o', nae better nor Englishers that haena sae muckle's set fit in our bonny Scotland; an' sic scriechin', skirlin' tongues as they hae, a body wad need to be gleg i' the uptak to understan' a word they say. Tak' my word for't, Maister Colin, it's no a'thegither luve for his lordship's grey hairs that gars yon gilpy lassock seek ... — The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge
... not seen any. I think faither wad have kent if any boat had been this way, for he has gleg een ... — Viking Boys • Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
... jist prepared to say sae muckle, Janet," replied David; "there's mony a thing 'at's lees, as ye ca't, 'at's no lees a' through. Ye see, Maister Sutherlan', I'm no gleg at the uptak, an' it jist taks me twise as lang as ither fowk to see to the ootside o' a thing. Whiles a sentence 'ill leuk to me clean nonsense a'thegither; an' maybe a haill ook efter, it'll come upo' me a' at ance; an' fegs! it's the best ... — David Elginbrod • George MacDonald
... the north, Pennefather, do you know what we should say about you? We should say that you were no very gleg in the uptake." ... — The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |