But gin ye be gentlemen, licht an cum in, Gin ye drink o' my wine ye'll nae gar my bluid spin.
Licht has also published a learned study of paiderastia in Attic comedy (Anthropophyteia, vol.
Down in the Auld Licht kirk that forenoon Gavin preached a sermon in praise of Woman, and up in the mudhouse in Windyghoul Babbie sat alone.
Ay, I noticed she wasna nane awed when I said you was the Auld Licht minister.
BY the following Monday it was known at many looms that something sat heavily on the Auld Licht minister's mind.
He's the minister o' the Auld Licht Kirk o' Thrums.
On the afternoon of the following Sabbath, as I have said, something strange happened in the Auld Licht pulpit.
Hendry," I replied instantly, "why is the Auld Licht bell ringing?
I never heard that Nanny needed a candle to licht her to her bed," the precentor muttered.
She was without reverence, she knew no difference between an Auld Licht minister, whose duty it was to speak and hers to listen, and herself.
And until you tell them I will keep your madness to myself, for I warn you that, as soon as they do know, there will be a vacancy in the Auld Licht kirk of Thrums.
About noon the doctor's dog-cart was observed by all the Tenements standing at the Auld Licht manse.
Never," I answered, notwithstanding my pity of the brave girl, and then while I was shaking lest he should go in to visit Nanny, I heard the echo of the Auld Licht bell.
She saw the licht in the window, and she cried, 'Hie, you billies in the windmill, the sojers is coming!
Then wi' the help o' the sergeant he mounted his horse, but his heid went licht again and he couldna sit in the saddle.
They shut oot yer licht terribly, man, and tak up a great deal o' valuable grun.
If not, it should be remedied; there is enough of the Auld Licht in you to be ravished.
No, THE AULD LICHT IDYLS never reached me - I wish it had, and I wonder extremely whether it would not be good for me to have a pennyworth of the Auld Licht pulpit.
It was Saturday evening--the night in the week when Auld Licht young men fell in love.
The proper course with an Auld Lichtlassie was to prefer the man who proposed to her.
Mittagsschlaf ist ein brennend Licht am Tage=--Sleep 10 at midday is a candle burning in the daytime.
Die Dämmerung ist das freundliche Licht der Liebenden=--The gloaming is the light that befriends the wooer.
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten=--The shadow is deeper where the light is strong.
That wes bath hee and lang and braid; And or thai half it passit had, Thai saw on syde thre men cumand, Lik to licht men and waverand.
For thai na nedill had na stane; Bot rowyt alwayis in-till ane, 24 Stemmand alwayis apon the fyre, That thai saw byrnand licht and schire.
If Jamie had come at ony time when it was licht she would hae seen 'im as sune as he turned the corner.
There was no licht in't but what cam' noo an' than frae a low i' the fire.
No, The Auld Licht Idyls never reached me--I wish it had, and I wonder extremely whether it would not be good for me to have a pennyworth of the Auld Licht pulpit.
Or I see him setting off to church, for he was a great 'stoop' of the Auld Licht kirk, and his mouth is very firm now as if there were a case of discipline to face, but on his way home he is bowed with pity.
So the ambitious woman would say with a sigh, and I did my best to turn the Auld Licht sketches into a book with my name on it.
Many a time in my young days,' she says, 'I played about the Auld Licht manse, but I little thought I should live to be the mistress of it!
Mr. Byars was the Auld Licht minister whom Mr. Dishart succeeded, and it was well known that he had advised the authorities to grant the use of the little town-house to the club on Friday evenings.
One of the steeples belongs to the new Free Kirk, and the other to the parish church, both of which the first Auld Licht minister I knew ran past when he had not time to avoid them by taking a back wynd.
Perhaps nothing took it out of the Auld Licht males so much as a christening.
For the first year or more of his ministry an Auld Licht minister was a mouse among cats.
I have a vivid recollection of going the round of the Auld Licht and other houses to see the sticks and the wrists in coils of wire.
There was the split in the kirk, too, that comes once at least to every Auld Licht minister.
As with all the churches in Thrums, care had been taken to make the Auld Licht one much too large.
The old lady was Mistress (which is Miss) Tibbie McQuhatty, and she nearly split the Auld Licht kirk over "run line.
To the Auld Licht of the past there were three degrees of damnation-- auld kirk, playacting, chapel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "licht" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
