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Example sentences for "ghillie"

Lexicographically close words:
gherkin; gherkins; ghesse; ghests; ghettos; ghost; ghostes; ghosties; ghostlike; ghostliness
  1. The situation of under-ghillie at my Highland shooting-box is vacant.

  2. My pride forbids; I'd rather be a ghillie on the old estate, or a keeper, than proud laird of it all.

  3. He could not quite forget the time when proud Mr Redmond offered him the position of ghillie on his premises.

  4. As soon as I step outside my door, my ghillie brings me my rod, and if there ain't a salmon at the end for me to land, another ghillie will receive his salary.

  5. But still a ghillie of better strategy would have kept those cattle and, what is worse, my friend, saved the suspicion which has fallen upon me.

  6. By his side sat a patriarchal old gentleman with a white beard, in tweeds, hobnail boots, and a deerstalker cap—obviously a head ghillie of high and ancient lineage.

  7. My wife and I shared the front seat with the oleaginous youth in the overall, while the patriarchal ghillie hung on precariously behind, locked in the embrace of the dead stag.

  8. It was the spokesman ghillie from below, toasting the new tenant.

  9. The ghillie told me, too, that sometimes, after a north wind, it was awfully grim.

  10. A clergyman of very unclerical habits was salmon-fishing in Scotland in 1872, and made use of strong expressions which very much disgusted the ghillie who accompanied him.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ghillie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.