The creeshie rax wi' skelpin' kaes Nae mair the howdie bicker whangs, Nor weanies in their wee bit claes Glour light as lammies wi' their sangs.
Weel, time gaed by: and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly o' that black business.
Aye the mairhe thocht, the mair he thocht o' the black man.
There was mony advised him to the contrar, for Janet was mair than suspeckit by the best folk in Ba'weary.
Mony's the gliff I got mysel' in the great deep; and why the Lord should hae made yon unco water is mair than ever I could win to understand.
He even ventured a remonstrance, but was answered, 'Mair haste, worse speed.
Maybe I can serve you, if ye ken what's for your guid, but I canna say mairthe noo.
Mair by token, they guess what we are, and will hold on to hae my life's bluid if naething mair!
My minnie aye needit me to sort the fish and gang her errands, and wad scarce hae sent me to scule, gin I wad hae gane where they girned at me for Partan Jeannie's wean, and gied me mair o' the tawse than of the hornbook.
Twill serve us the noo, find we shall need it naemair any way.
If they did," Thomas said, "I daur say they had mair sinse than sit down to eat their dinner in the middle o' snaw if they had a house to tak it in.
Ye hae mair wisdom than ye ken;" adding under his breath, "a deal mair wisdom than Sandy McLeod.
The mother of mischief is na mair nor a midgewing.
It is na mairpitty to see a Woman greit, nor to see a Goose go barefoot.
The circumstances a' point to some agent mair than accident--that's what the sherra says, and he canna see his way to discharging the panel.
When I was saying ootlay, I meant mair than just a sixpence here or there.
But nae doubt it will be livelier and mair pleesant for yoursel', sir, when Mr John and Tammas, they baith come hame.
For if big Tinto's gane, there's wee Tinto, still mair important, with all the world before him.
If he hadna been so book-learned he would have been mair friendly-like with them that were of his ain kind and degree.
An' a happier fate couldna befall ye," said Ben, "for ye need a parson mair than ony mon I know.
Ye hae dune mairthis mornin for the regeneration o' a puir sinner than was effected by a' the sermons I ever heard frae the pulpits o' Scotland.
God be praised, Janet Schulebred will hae nae mair cause to lecture me!
Sure enough," said the laird gruffly; "he mair than half confessed it himsel.
That's mairthan I ever did upon earth," said Duncan with a leer which he could not restrain.
Sae we maun tak nae mairnotice o't; for ye ken kings are kittle cattle to deal wi'.
The Stewarts hae been dethroned, and William and Mary reign in their stead; but nae mair word of the Covenant than if it were a dead letter.
And first came out the thick, thick blood, And syne came out the thin; And syne came out the bonny heart's blood; There was nae mair within.
Oh I hae killed my hawk sae good, Mither, mither: Oh I hae killed my hawk so good, And I had no mair but he oh.
Now speak nae mair, my lusty dame, Now speak nae mair of that to me: Did I ne'er see a fair woman, But I wad sin with her body?
But take thy harp into thy hand, And harp out ower yon plain, And ne'er think mair on thy true love Than if she had never been.
And further mair, he sent express, To schaw his collours and ensenzie, 70 To all and sindry, mair and less, Throchout the bounds of Byne and Enzie.
Thys was that tyme quhen the fyrst quyete Of naturale sleip, to quham na gyft mair swete, 10 Stelis on fordoverit mortale creaturis, And in thar swewynnys metis quent figuris.
Leif of my child, and of sic batale ces; Na mair at this tyme; draw the owt of pres.
Thus schortly for the namys, A twenty devill way fall hys wark atanys, Quhilk is na mair lyke Virgill, dar I lay, Than the nycht owle resemblis the papyngay.
Lord bless your honour, naebody sall ken a word about it frae me, mair than if the bit bourock had been there since Noah's flood.
Hout, Monkbarns, ye speak as if there was nae mair meat in the house --wad ye not have had me offer the honest man some slight refreshment after his walk frae the manse?
But the short and the lang o't is, that we'll lose the place gin there's ony mair complaints o' the kind.
An ye will be a wife-carle, and buy fish at your ain hands, ye suld never bid muckle mair than a quarter.
As muckle care as if he were a graybeard o' brandy; and I canna take mair if his hair were like John Harlowe's.
Shame and scorn may we thole that mourn, Though sair be they to dree: But ill may we bide the thoughts we hide, Mair keen than wind and sea.
The conviction of guilt and grace cam in on Tam like the deep sea; he flang doun the pike that was in his hands--"I will nae mair lift arms against the cause o' Christ!
But whan he spak, it was mair in sorrow than in anger.
Naething could be mair proper than what I would get a leave to see Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart of Halkett's.
But the better the family, the mair men hanged or headed, that's always been poor Scotland's story.
It'll be the mair pleisand a change for the solan geese, then," quoth Andie dryly.
My grandsire gied Sandie a siller tester to pit in his gun wi' the leid draps, bein mair deidly again bogles.
Here, stand up, out with your airn; ye shall walk no step beyond this place upon the road till ye can do yoursel' and me mair credit.
But me, that's aulder and mair judeecious, see perhaps a wee bit further forrit in the job than what ye can dae.
And though Tam Dale carried a firelock there, a single sodger, and liked a lass and a glass, as I was sayin,' the mind of the man was mair just than set with his position.
He minded that ropes was unco saft things, and the solan's neb and the Bass Rock unco hard, and that twa hunner feet were raither mair than he would care to fa'.
Do you know an air--I am sure you must know it, "We'll gang naemair to yon town?
What she saw in your faither to tak' him I dinna ken ony mair than I ken hoo it cam' to pass that I am the mistress o' Walter Skirving's hoose the day.
Ye belang half a mile faurer up, my lad; ye'll bite aff nae mair o' my heuks.
It wad be mair tellin' ye gin ye were learnin' yer Caritches" [Westminster Catechism].
Him an' me here has had oor sorrows i' the past, deep buried for mair nor twenty year.
I dinna think that," replied Jess; "he disna want him to come aboot here ony mair nor you.
Heckle him finely, and spare not; but ere ye have done wi' him, for my sake drop a word in his lug to come nae mair to Vesper.
To tell ye the truth, lad, I never was thinking ony mair aboot it, nor wad it hae entered into my head again, had ye no mentioned it.
The Whitadder leads naemair certainly to the Tweed, than will the story o' yer danger lead to the discovery o' him ye are ashamed to acknowledge as a lover.
But there is a God in heaven; and He it is wha has brought me here, to look ance mair on her I loved and ruined, and now can only save by my ain endless misery and shame.
Come, gie's yer han, and we'll think nae mair o't?
A lover's flute has mair virtue in it for young maidens than for auld witches," replied the other, looking knowingly.
Dinna tak on sae, man; let byganes be byganes, and think nae mair aboot it.
Thora can read better than I can," I said, "and she kensmair geography.
They was expecting thee mair than a twa week syne.
The auld swindler kens the thing's worth mair than he offers.
She took it as quietly and decently as I'll receive te ten merks (and whatever mair my expedition merits) frae te hands o' yer honour.
No a madam in a' the land could be at mair pains snoodin her hair than she was.
But I maun go and spier for auld John Gavel, wha has been sair distressed for mair than a fortnight; and sae, guid-day.
Ye'll see and hear nae mair o' puir Sandy Peden after this day's wark is owre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
