Wey, thoo gies us a gliff an' aal; an' what dis thoo hear them sayin'?
He gies a little lift ov his head as he looks up in a dazed way for a moment from the floor.
Oh, there are times when Gourlay makes little or noathing from the carrying; but then, ye see, it gies him a fine chance to annoy folk!
Though Gourlay gies her very little to come and go on, she slipped him a whole sovereign this morning, to keep his pouch.
I wuss ye happy, sir, through Him that gies happiness--marriage is an honourable state.
It is aye best to be provided for whatever may come; and as Death often gies nae warning, I wadna like to be met wi' it, and to hae naething in the house to lay me out in like a Christian.
He that saves a penny has as mony thanks, in the lang run, as he that gies it awa.
When they quarrel it scandalises the close and gies the land a bad name.
Who is it at leads me so lively a donce, Yet to tawk serious ne'er gies me a chonce, An' niver replied when I begged on her once?
Mr. Urquhart was in sic a ravel after it that when he gies out the first line o' the hunder and nineteenth psalm for singing, says he, 'And so on to the end.
Think, when your castigated pulse Gies now and then a wallop, [Gives] What ragings must his veins convulse, That still eternal gallop!
Ye ken a' hevna hed muckle time for releegion, but a body gies a thocht tae the ither warld at a time, an' that's ma ain mind.
Whan God gies you a wife, may she be ane to hear yer lichtest word!
To them 'at maks little, for reasons good, by their neebour, he gies the better wauges whan they gang hame.
The Lord aye gieshis children what is best for them.
Warldly wisdom I hae nane, or next to nane; but I ken weel that the wisdom that God gies to those that ask it will be better to haud to when passing frae this to the untried warld than a' the wisdom o' the wisest men.
Jeannie, ye will see till 't that there is plenty o' parritch made, for if the meal gies oot ye can hae mair.
She gies the herd a pickle nits, An' twa red cheekit apples, To watch, while for the barn she sets, In hopes to see Tam Kipples That vera night.
When Vulcan gieshis bellows breath, An' ploughmen gather wi' their graith, O rare!
While nobles strive to please ye, Will ye accept a compliment, A simple poet gies ye?
He's a fool that asks ower muckle, but he's a greater fool that gies it.
He that gies a' his gear to his bairns, tak up a beetle and ding out his harns.
The goat gies a gude milking, but she ca's ower the cog wi' her feet.
If a man's gaun down the brae ilka ane gies him a jundie.
And aye he gies the touzie drab The tither skelpin' kiss, While she held up her greedy gab Just like an aumos dish.
She that taks a gift, hersel she sells; and she that gies ane, does naething else.
A' things o' religion hae settled into a method that gies the patronless preacher but little chance o' a kirk.
For God's sake, dinna think that sic as him gies ony token o' being ane o' the elec.
Ye dinna tell me he gies ye noucht to mainteen the cratur upo?
For ae thing he winna get the same naitral disciplene 'at ilka mither cat gies its kitlins!
No that she's onything but perfecly reasonable, and gies never a grain o' trouble!
These later Rothamsted results fit in very well with those obtained ten years ago (1903) by True and Gies in their experiments on the physiological action of some of the heavy metals in mixed solutions.
True and Gies (1903) showed that the addition of calcium salts in appropriate concentrations reduced the toxicity of zinc salts considerably, a result similar to that which they obtained for copper.
O the filthy lucre of gain that men gies themsells up to!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
