I'll sell it a hantlecheaper than thir warldly-minded fleshers.
It was an ugly lick; but there were a hantle o' uglier anes than it gaun whar it was gotten.
If the lassie's in grief, whilk she has but little reason to be, she has them aboot her here wha hae a deeper interest in her than ye can hae, and a hantle better richt to be her comforters.
And there's a gey lot of folks i' this warld 'd like vara weel to abide, but they're a hantle too lazy to walk.
There's a hantle o' folk makes that blunder, though.
They know we shall not cut our throats, hating the sight of blood, and rating our skins a hantle higher nor our lives; and as for hanging, while she is fixing of the nail and a making of the noose she has time t'alter her mind.
The Laird o' Monkbarns wad hae a hantle to say about it, as he has about maist things, if he ken'd only about the place.
I, 'I'm a hantle mair than that, and I have never seen it!
Sae ye see hoo they war a wheen selfish crayturs, an' a hantle waur nor the man 'at was led astray into an ill deed.
They hae a hantle to answer for 'at come o' decent forbears.
She has sic a hantle o' bonnie ways aboot her, and as sweet a like natur' as ever God made.
That's jist terrible bonnie--a hantle bonnier than onything a body would make up themsels.
No that I would care a snuff for the lassie gettin a man wi' a hantle riches; but I would like to see her get ane that would ken how to guide her, and how to guide the warld too.
Ye'll wauk him up, and he'll be a hantle the waur o' 't.
There's nae doobt the hoose wants a hantle o' doctorin'.
And she had a hantle to speir at me aboot; and it took a' the knowledge I had o' buiks in general to answer her questions.
Deed will I, sir, I wad do a hantle mair nor that to please you.
Ye never wad be idle or want pleasure, yer honour, among sic a hantle o' fine lads and lasses.
An' sae it was that baith coorts and clocks were therefore a hantlethe better o' bein' scoored.
Maist folk like to see his back a hantle better than his face.
I can't be worse if I find the vagabone," said he, "and I may be a hantle better.
They know we shall not cut our throats, hating the sight of blood and rating our skins a hantle higher nor our lives; and as for hanging, while she is a fixing of the nail and a making of the noose she has time t' alter her mind.
We'll get her story frae her or lang, and syne we'll ken a hantle better hoo to help her on!
She'll ken a hantle better nor ony father what to dee wi' 't!
Then he turns the talk on herself and her domestic surroundings, and presses the sleeping potion for her mother upon her.
The minister remarked to a friend, "Nae doubt there's a hantle o' miscellaneous eating aboot a pig.
They'll maybe hae been trying how weel they could vizy at the wild ducks; there's a hantle o' cleckins about the saughs o' the lake.
And me a hantle langer, my feet's sae odious heavy!
Jist tell me, Phemy, dinna ye think a hantle mair o' yersel sin' he took ye in han'?
He said a hantle aboot the care o' Providence, but a' the gude that he did seemed to me to be but a haudin' aff o' something ill that he had made as weel.
It wad mak a hantle difference to his sin; it wad be a great excuse for him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hantle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
