Oh, if they hed only githered like this juist aince when he wes livin', an' lat him see he hedna laboured in vain.
Illustration] "A've seen it aince afore," he said.
For aince a man takes a mark on his way, I wadna hae him to tine sight o't.
Ye hae gi'en me the glaiks aince by turning invisible; but be ye deil, be ye fairy, I sal secure ye now.
She brings me amind o' a weelfaurd dink gimmer that wench," said Jordan, "that I aince saw gaun up Sowerhopeburn.
I downa bide to see the moon Blink owre the glen sae clearly; Aince on a bonnie face she shone-- A face that I lo'ed dearly!
I am nae stranger; An' he wha aince has wander'd wrang Is best aware o' danger.
Sanders had aince a gold sovereign, and he looked at it so often that it seemed to grow smaller and smaller in his hand till he was feared it micht just be a half after all.
Kaytherine Crummie telled me that, and she says aince you're used to it, writing letters is as easy as skinning moles.
I mind aince my ain mither--what the devil are you glowering at, Andrew Luke?
Wi' his meat he was aince a man easy to please, But last Sabbath he flang the fried ingans an' cheese That I had for his supper richt into the bleeze, An' he fair pit the shakers on me!
Aince ye had it," he argued with her, "ye would juist hae to lock it awa in the drawers.
We hae nae cause to be anxious aboot a' thing bein' dune re-respectable aince we're gone.
He pretended ainceon this vara spot to see humour i' the origin o' cock-fightin'.
He gae a lauch when he saw me tak haud o' the bairn, an' syne a' at aince he gaed awa quick.
I was aince like her, an' I used to hing aboot my mother, too, in that very roady.
Aince a woman sets her mind on something to wear, she's mair onreasonable than the stupidest man.
Ah, but he didna mak nae pretence o' no carin' for me aince he was inside the hoose.
She aincetelt me that it was bred in the bane, for her faither was a colourin'-man in a waxcloth factory aboot Kirkcaldy.
As Tammas Fraser aince said when he was takin' the Book, "Ah, that's where the rub comes in!
Weel, whenever the doctor cam' an' saw him he ordered him at ainceto be put in his bed.
But aince they're too old to be seeking joes, they a' set up to be apotecaries.
Ye'll just mistryst aince and for a' with the gentry in the bents.
Aince mair, Slavery," implored Stewart, and we set out for the mountain at an unusually lively pace.
Not only hae I seen them, but I aince heard them talking,' my companion replied quietly as before.
But it 'll be some comfort to be in the hame o' yir people aince mair, and to ken ye 've dune yir wark weel.
I was with her before she died, and her last words to me were, 'Tell Jean tae dust yir bukes aince in the sax months, and for ony sake keep ae chair for sittin' on.
Guthrie he coontit to be worth aboot half-a-croon; but he aincehed three shillin's oot o' the Cardross case.
Ithers declare 'at he's got a wab o' claith, and hes a new pair made in Muirtown aince in the twa year maybe, and keeps them in the garden till the new look wears aft.
O you that niver failed me yet, Gin aince my step ye hear, Come to yon brig atween us set, An' bide till I win near!
Aince ye gang near the castle of Aikwood ye'll get a little mair experience perhaps.
And are you indeed returned to the Christian world aince mair?
It is time to decide about that when aince I get the offer.
I wish we were where sword and shield could aince mair stand us in stead.
Gude faith I'm aince ower the water," said Charlie.
That was a saying o' my grandfather's aincewhen they wantit him to visit at the castle of Mountcomyn.
Have the Ha's and the Reids been o'er the fells aince mair?
Aince he's ower it's a straicht road to the heichts o' Millfore.
So I set oot, gled as you can weel guess, to be under the open sky aince mair.
But aince I catched him keekin' at me through his fingers when we were on our knees at the worship--and though I was keekin' at him mysel' I never let on.
If I'm no wrang I aince sold a ribbon to a bonnie lass there, wha I took for the dochter.
I niver loved James Moore, but I think, as Mr. Hornbut aince said, he'd rather die than lie.
Aince before he wanted somethin' o' me, and did he come to fetch it himself like a man?
But I'm forgetting my tale; for aince I get into the mids o' a battle, it's no easy getting me out again.
A'm no hearing sae weel as aince a did, an' ma hands are shakin' in the writin'.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aince" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
