Major Meikleand I divided the night, and we were kept going.
He invited Major Meikle and myself to the cabin, where the cook served out hot tea to all hands.
Major Meikle and I had often, like Moses viewing the Land of Promise, looked at the country over which the fight was now to take place--a stretch of flats about three miles long, from the beach up to the foot of the hills.
Major Meikle and I had our regular walk before breakfast.
Major Meikle took charge, and I am sure the same good work will be done under his command.
O meikle dolour did she dree, And aye the salt seas o'er she swam; And far mair dolour did she dree 15 On Estmere crag, when she them clamb.
He has tane up a meikle stane, And flang't as far as I cold see; 10 Ein thouch I had been Wallace wicht, I dought na lift it to my knie.
She didna comb her yellow hair, Nor makemeikle o'er her head; 50 And ilka thing that lady took, Was like to be her deid.
And he wad do their errands weel, And meikle he wad say; And ilka ane about the court Wad bid to him gude-day.
He wad na hecht them courtly gifts, Nor meikle speech pretend; But he wad hecht an honest heart, Wad ne'er desert his friend.
There was such a buying of wool to make blankets, with a booming of the meikle wheel to spin the same, and such birring of the little wheel for sheets and napery, that the manse was for many a day like an organ kist.
I hae owre meikleregard for you to let you bide in jeopardy ony langer here.
Mr Witherspoon, I ken you weel; meikle sweet counselling I hae gotten frae you when ye preached for our minister at Camrachle in the time of the great covenanting.
While this invention was more brilliant than those of Meikle and Whitney, it was hardly so important.
On his return journey the laird of Mackay escorted him as far as the Meikle Ferry, on the Kyle of Sutherland.
When a bridge is erected over theMeikle Gruinard river this route will no doubt become popular.
He died at a good old age, and was buried in Creagan an Inver of Meikle Gruinard, on the northern confines of the parish of Gairloch.
The continuation of this drive to the Meikle Gruinard river is well worth taking; a picturesque burn is crossed half-way between the two rivers, and the horses may perhaps be baited at the Fisherfield farmhouse.
I have not observed the smew duck on Gairloch or Loch Ewe, but I have seen it in numbers at the mouth of the Meikle Gruinard River, which is little more than a mile beyond the northern limit of the parish of Gairloch.
Rorie cut off a groom's hand with his dirk at the Meikle Ferry on the Kyle of Sutherland, and then became piper to John Roy Mackenzie, fourth laird of Gairloch, about 1609.
Let honest men puddle and work as they like, if they please not thee well, they shall not have meikleto the fore when they die.
I have set a nipperkin of toddy by me, just by way of spell, to keep away the meikle horned deil, or any of his subaltern imps who may be on their nightly rounds.
There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirkconnell lea.
Then on we held for Carlisle toun, And at Staneshaw-Bank the Eden we crossed; The water was great and meikleof spait, But the never a horse nor man we lost.
Were I the lad I wadna place ower meikle dependence on the Duke's promises," remarked Archie Armstrong, in a low tone, to Nicholas.
A slave to love's unbounded sway, He aft has wrought me meikle wae; But now he is my deadly fae, Unless thou be my ain.
Meikle world's good," as much as having a world's good things.
I know that it was not for nothing that I spake so meikle good of Christ to you in public.
All I have then is, that howbeit the law and wrath have gotten a decreet against me, I can yet lippen that meikle good in Christ as to get a suspension, and to bring my cause in reasoning again before my Well-beloved.
When I am heavy and sad, one of His love-looks would do me meikle worlds' good.
Make meikleof assurance, for it keepeth your anchor fixed.
It is nothing to Him to fill the like of me; one of His looks would do me meikle world's good, and Him no ill.
My hope sitteth neighbour with meikle black hunger: and certainly I dow not but think that there is more of that love ordained for me than I yet comprehend, and that I know not the weight of the pension which the King will give me.
As Meikle John Gibb, who was their comrade in captivity, used to disturb their worship in jail by his maniac howling, two of them took turn about to hold him down by force, and silence him by a napkin thrust into his mouth.
There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirconnell Lee.
She didna comb her yellow hair, Nor make meikle o' her heid; And ilka thing, that lady took, Was like to be her deid.
There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirkconnel Lee.
Then on we held for Carlisle toun, And at Staneshaw-bank the Eden we cross'd; The water was great andmeikle of spait, But the niver a horse nor man we lost.
I laid her down wi' meikle care, On fair Kirkconnell lea.
Sae couthie, couthie did she look, And meikle had she fleeched; Out shot his hand--alas!
There is naething like a man lookin after his own concerns; and, where there is sae meikle at stake, it is impossible but to think o't.
We got up a rousin fire, and drunk maybe a glass or twa extra owre our cracks about Scotland and the lassies; but I'll tak my aith on't there was neither o' us meikle the waur.
There was ower meikle joy and ower little pain; Sae fareweel, happy days!
But he wha trusts to fortune's smile Has meikle cause to fear; She blinket blithe but to beguile The young Chevalier!
There did she swoon wi’ meikle care, On fair Kirconnell lea.
XXVI Then on we held for Carlisle toun, And at Staneshaw-bank the Eden we cross’d; The water was great and meikle of spate, But the never a horse nor man we lost.
There 's meikle bliss in ae fond kiss, Whiles mair than in a score; But wae betak' the stouin smack I took ahint the door.
I would I had as meikle pepper as he counts himself worthy Mice dirt.
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