It gart me wonner at the time, for that wasna hoo a bairn 'at had been caret for sud be cled.
Mony a better man has been waur misca'd, an' gart fowk forget that ever the lee was lee'd.
He gart his feit defend his heid, He thocht ane cryd haif at him, Quhill he wes past out of all pleid[986] He suld bene swift that gat him Throw speid, At Chrystis kirk of the grene.
And than thay gart me cast out many plackis[552], And gart me pay for four and twentie actis.
Dame Sensuall one letter gart proclame, And hir exilit Italy and France.
The Capitane of the Inglis band Tuke the young Squyer be the hand, And led him to the pailyeoun[422], And gart him mak collatioun.
Me-thocht yone otter gart me bleid, And buir me backwart from my steid.
And halds me yit under that same proces That gart me want the Sacrament at Pasche.
The funeral came into fair Scotland, And they gart the bells be rung; And when it came to the second kirk, They gart the mass be sung.
He playned to the sheriff sare, That stolen his plough irons were; The sheriff than paid him shillings twa, And after that he done had sa, Soon a great court he gart set, Wytting of that stelth to get.
The Bishop of Aberdeen alswa, He gart cursed denounce all tha That either by art or part, or swike, Gart burn this time that Earl Patricke, In all the kirks halely Of Aberdeen's diocesy.
What gart ye be at that expense, whan ye kent I had a bed i' the ga'le-room?
To The Weavers Gin Ye Go My heart was ance as blithe and free As simmer days were lang; But a bonie, westlin weaver lad Has gart me change my sang.
My mither sent me to the town, To warp a plaiden wab; But the weary, weary warpin o't Has gart me sigh and sab.
Keep ye the outside o' the door threshold as lang as ye haegart us keep it.
Ye hae nearly gart me brik my pledge o' honour, whilk I wadna hae done for ten sic necks as yours.
The great Agyle he gaed before, He gart the cannons and guns to roar," and the very macer cried 'Cruachan!
The boy was clad in robes of grene, Sweete as the infant spring: And like the mavis on the bush, He gart the vallies ring.
He gart the Scottis wryte bukis efter the vse of Sarum, and constranit thaym to say efter that vse.
L The King he sent for robes o’ green, And girdles o’ shining gold; He gart the ladies be array’d Most comely to behold.
Yon man gart me greit, and grat never tear himself: I will see if I can gar him greit.
I likit nae sic freedoms, as I had never been used wi' them, sae I took up my neive an' gae him a yank on the haffat till I gart his bit brass cap rattle against the wa'.
An' if he met a Sassenach, Attour in Caledonia, He gart him lilt in a cotton kilt Till he took an acute pneumonia!
Sic an awfu' cure I ne'er saw gi'en to rich or puir, For when we saw the ugsome beasts It gart the herts rise in our breists!
Ye're a' wrang to the last: What gart ye burn thae deevilich weyds Whan the win' blew frae the wast!
I never jist cheatit-- I own I defeatit, Gart his poverty tell On him 'at maun sell!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gart" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
