A Chonuill, cha sealbh na cinn, deimhin leam gur dheargas d’airm, Na cinn do chi’m air a ghad sloinntear leat na fir fo fhaoibh.
O chitheam gu bheil a toirt cìs, leat as gach aon bhaile, Rìgh aireach aig gniomh ghrinn, a teachd um chraoibh chosgair.
A special tax was levied on the pilchard fishery to provide money for the fortifications, and a leat or water-course was constructed with the primary object, it is said, of supplying fresh water for the royal ships.
The remonstrance was now on her tongue, but as accident would have it, before the word could be spoken Mrs. Leat was stepping from the last stair to the floor, and no remonstrance came.
Not expecting Mrs. Manston so early, she had gone out on a very important errand to Mrs. Leat the postmistress.
The whole leat from the Head Weir to Roborough was found to be one mass of frozen snow.
For nearly twelve hours a gang of men dug at the drift, and succeeded in freeing the leat and saving the town from a water famine.
There were nearly ten miles of leat to be cleared, and much of the snow was frozen into hard solid masses, against which but slow headway could be made.
By nightfall, when work ceased, it was found that the leat had been cleared for a mile and a half from the Head Weir towards Yennadon.
The greatest discomforts experienced at Liskeard were those brought about by the impassable condition of the roads, and by the blocking of the leat on Bulland Down, which supplies the town with water.
The leat was on a very exposed part of the down, and the height of the snow-drifts in the locality may be judged from the view we give of one of these.
Mr. Roberts, however, with his men proceeded along the leat to a point near Clearbrook, but so fierce was the storm that work could not be commenced, and an adjacent barn was used as a temporary refuge.
Much of the snow that had been removed from the leat had drifted back, and part of the work had to be done over again.
This Pronoun occurs in such expressions as an deigh na chuala tu after what you have heard; their leat na th' agad, or na bheil agad, bring what you have.
Olc air mhath leat e, whether you take it well or ill.
Unhappy the host of Leat Cuin, to have fallen by the sprites of Slain; Happy the reign of great Aed, and unhappy the loss of Flann.
We might calculate on a month or six weeks in getting up the fort, making the leat and water-wheel, putting up the machinery, and laying down the flumes.
The stamps were erected, with the water-wheel to work them; the stream dammed a hundred yards up, and a leat constructed to bring the water down to the wheel.
Well, it is all there, somehow, flowing inside life, like a stream that is added to a river, not like a leat drawn aside from the current.
The full leat dashed merrily through the sluice, making holiday, like a child released from school.
Whereon Frank sent Drake a pretty epigram, comparing Drake's projected leat to that river of eternal life whereof the just would drink throughout eternity, and quoting (after the fashion of those days) John vii.
But he marked a man by theleat and he shouted to him and attracted his attention.
I quite agree, I'm sure; and thank you kindly; if I get over this here wall I can pick up the leat yonder; and to see me by the leat will be an everyday sight for anybody.
Look back a bit--to that day on theleat path, Rhoda.
Meanwhile the girl, a little fluttered by this occurrence, proceeded on her way with thoughts not wholly pleasant; and to her came the leat man, Simon Snell, upon his rounds.
I go along ten miles of the leat six days a week, winter and summer.
I hear that yellow-bearded chap, the leat man, Simon Snell, be taking up with your Dorcas.
You leat chaps all get more than you're worth," said Bowden.
He asked himself if he should take her a dish of the fat leat trout that he caught sometimes; but he felt doubtful whether such a step would not be going too far.
The well, which is a stream of water from the moor conducted by a small leat to the house, is under cover; and the cattle-sheds open into the yard, so as to be reached with ease from the house without exposure to the storms.
He follows the Devonport leat till he reaches the turn on the right to Nosworthy Bridge.
Traces of the leat which supplied the motive power to this wheel may also be seen.
Leat is a Devonshire term for a running stream, and a branch of the leat ran through the Oatlands garden while there was another branch, more venturesome, at the bottom of the fields.
An easy way of getting to the leatat the foot of the fields was to walk there, but by the time he was eight Scott scorned the easy ways.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
