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Example sentences for "kail"

Lexicographically close words:
kahi; kahun; kahuna; kai; kaia; kaili; kaimakam; kaims; kainga; kainit
  1. Or tumblin in the boiling flood Wi' kail an' beef; But when thou pours thy strong heart's blood, There thou shines chief.

  2. Into the saucepan in which the kail was cooked put a piece of butter; melt it, and stir into it 1 tablespoonful of Allinson fine wheatmeal, and brown it very slightly.

  3. Then add some of the drained-off kail wafer and stir it smooth with the browned flour.

  4. Scotch kail is best after there has been frost on it.

  5. Return the chopped Scotch kail to the saucepan, add pepper and salt to taste; let it cook for a minute, and serve.

  6. In Scotland young women determine the figure and size of their future husbands by paying a visit to the Kail or Cabbage garden, and "pu'ing the Kailstock" blindfold.

  7. The old English name Cole and the Scotch Kail are both derived from this Latin word Caulis, a stalk.

  8. As gude eat the deil as sup the kail he's boiled in.

  9. Gie my cousin kail enow, and see my cousin's dish be fu'.

  10. He needs a lang-shanket spoon that sups kail wi' the deil.

  11. A body's no broke while they hae a gude kail stock.

  12. He that lends his pot may seethe his kail in his loof.

  13. He's been at the kirk o' Crackabout, whaur the kail pat was the minister.

  14. Cauld kail het again, that I liked never; auld love renewed again, that I liked ever.

  15. There's measure in a' things, even in kail supping.

  16. I hae had better kail in my cog, and ne'er gae them a keytch.

  17. Mrs. Nevin, coming out of the door with the kail ready washed in her hand.

  18. Now your master is coming to hang you because you stole kail in his garden.

  19. So while the lad sat there in prison waiting to be hanged, one of the serving-men came out by night and stole kail in the garden of the old hunks, and the lad saw him.

  20. And with that he cut off all his heads, as though they stood on a kail stalk.

  21. BOW-KAIL SALAD--Put one-half cup of vinegar and one tablespoonful of butter to heat in a double boiler.

  22. The front teeth are also sometimes called kail seluang, or "seluang" hook, or hook for catching the seluang, a small fish resembling the sardine.

  23. Serapah Kail When fishing with a Line and Hook Hei Mambang Tali Harus!

  24. The stolen kail was taken home and examined, and according to its height, shape, and features would be the height, shape, and features of the future husband or wife.

  25. A common practice at Hallowe'en was to go out stealthily to a neighbour's kailyard and there, with shut eyes, to pull up the first kail stock that came to hand.

  26. The winter was drawing on, but there would be the oats and the potatoes, with what kail the garden would yield them, and they had, he thought, plenty of peats.

  27. In the unhappy controversy between the Resolutioners and Protesters, M'Kail took the side of the former; but was among the more moderate of the party.

  28. HUGH M'KAIL was at this time minister of Irvine.

  29. I have just put the last hand to the song I meant for "Cauld kail in Aberdeen.

  30. Cauld kail in Aberdeen," you must leave with me yet awhile.

  31. Cauld kail in Aberdeen, and castocks in Strabogie," are words which have no connexion with the sentiment of the song which Burns wrote for the air.

  32. Marry me to-night and to-morrow you return to Kail Baleski.

  33. They came in record time to the quaint little village of Kail Baleski, which shelters itself at the very base of the foot-hills, and has not changed in any detail for the last two hundred years.

  34. Shortly after two o'clock, on the instructions issued by her royal father, Olga had set out for Kail Baleski in a carriage with the customary retinue for travel.

  35. I had only the assurance of the priest of Kail Baleski as to where you stood.

  36. Carriage travel is slow in this country, and Olga would hardly have reached Kail Baleski yet.

  37. A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner.

  38. I would have given them their kail through the reek in a double dose if I had only a simple knife," said the lad angrily, looking up the street, where the fighting was now over.

  39. Our kail is like to be cauld eneugh too," he reflected, as the chorus of "Cauld Kail in Aberdeen" again reached his ears.

  40. The address of young M’Kail on the scaffold concluded with these sublime expressions—“Farewell, father and mother, friends and relations.

  41. As soon as Kail arrived in the valley of Magaith, a part of the territory of the Adites, he informed his countrymen of the favourable answer he had received, and of the cloud which was soon to water all their lands.

  42. Kail from Mecca comes, "He brings the boon obtained!

  43. A voice went forth from heaven "Chuse Kail of the three!

  44. Kail chose the black, which he imagined the fullest, and most abundant in water, of which they were in extreme want.

  45. Kail failed not to make choice of the last, thinking it to be laden with the most rain; but when this cloud came over them, it proved to be fraught with the divine vengeance, and a tempest broke forth from it which destroyed them all.

  46. Kail sent to Mecca to obtain rain for Ad, 111, n.

  47. The tribe of Ad having been for their incredulity previously chastised with a three years' drought, sent Kail Ebn Ithar and Morthed Ebn Saad, with seventy other principal men, to the temple of Mecca to obtain rain.

  48. Whereupon three clouds appeared, a white one, a red one, and a black one; and a voice from heaven ordered Kail to choose which he would.

  49. My life is all sin," she would say, "if it were but to peel the bark off a kail castock and eat, I sin in the doing of it!

  50. She gaed oot to him wi' a wee drap kail broth.

  51. For, said they, he was a good tyke that would not sup kail with the Pope nor yet the deil, and so had no need of his long spoon.


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