Now, there were many more brilliant ministers in Scotland than the minister of Blawrinnie, but none kindlier; and in a few minutes he had offered to give Simeon Gleg two nights a week in the dead languages.
Simeon Gleg stood by, looking up and clasping his hands in ecstasy.
The eyes of Simeon Gleg were upturned in heartfelt thankfulness.
Instead of receiving this statement with gratitude, Gleg had sniffed in a manner which, in any one else, would have been impertinence; and he had not even offered thanks.
A moment later he was in the fingers of Gleg the valet in the bath-room, and Stafford set to work to make the breakfast piping hot again.
For Gleg was still more the child of habit--and decorous habit--than himself.
Every body's no sae gleg at the uptake as ye are yoursell, mither.
But I doobt his ear's gleg for ony prayer that gangs up his gait.
He is none ower gleg with the tongue at the best o' times.
And there will be gay Cassencarry, And there'll be gleg Colonel Tam.
Dinwiddie was a gleg man, of a jocose nature; and he, guessing something of what I was ettling at, was very mirthful with me; but I kept my own counsel till a meet season.
Every body said the man was fey; and truly, when I remarked him so gallant and gay on the Sabbath at the kirk, and noted his glowing face and gleg een, I thought at times there was something no canny about him.
The Provost's a gleg man, but he's not so gleg as his wife.
You're not very gleg at some things, Elrigmore," he said, smiling.
I said the good-wife was gleg; I'm just asgleg myself.
Saw ye that and shotna at it, and you sae gleg a gunner.
He seemed by his beard and hair to be ninety years of age at the least, yet his natural colour was in his cheek, and he was gleg both to hear and to speak.
But he, swearing that he was not gleg at the parson-work, bade Auchendrayne to read it aloud for him.
But he fell in with the wrong man when he tried to take Dominie Mure unawares, for the little man was as gleg as a hawk, having been accustomed to watch the eyes of boys all his life, ay, and often those of lads bigger than himself.
And then the changes," said Geordie, "hae ta'en awa the auld folk whase gleg een would hae noticed it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gleg" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
