For, ye see, I have sae mony friends to remember, and my plan is to begin at the top of the Glen and tak' them family by family till I come to the end of the parish.
Mony a one for him makes mane, But nane sail ken where he is gane; O'er his white banes, when they are bare, The wind sail blow for evermair.
And there was the bag of siller sure aneugh, and mony orra thing besides, that had been missing for mony a day.
Aye, marry does he, an tou comest to that, mon; only it takes him four hours to write as mony lines.
But there were owermony great folks dipped in the same doings, to mak a spick and span new warld.
My gudesire kend mony that had long before gane to their place, for often had he piped to the most part in the hall of Redgauntlet.
As for the whistle, it was gaen anes and ay; but mony a time was it heard at the top of the house on the bartizan, and amang the auld chimneys and turrets where the howlets have their nests.
And mony, mony mair were coming and ganging, a' as busy in their vocation as if they had been alive.
Yours is a dangerous trade, Robin; it hurts mony a ane--baith host and guest.
No but my hinny might have been better if he had liked; for mony a bein nook in mony a braw house has been offered to my hinny Willie, if he wad but just bide still and play to the gentles.
Mony folk ca' me Mistress Wilson, and Milnwood himsell is the only ane about this town thinks o' ca'ing me Alison, and indeed he as aften says Mrs Alison as ony other thing.
He had seenmony a braw callant, far less than Guse Gibbie, fight brawly under Montrose.
I sayd, for Mary's love that holy saynt, Pity the poore that would proceede; But for lack of mony I cold not spede.
Now Jesus that in Bethlem was bore, Save London, and send trew lawyers there mede, For who so wantsmony with them shall not spede.
I gat not a mum of his mouth for my meed, And for lack of mony I myght not spede.
I never was used to such thyngs in dede, And wanting mony I myght not spede.
I wot not what thou meanest, gan he say; To get me thence he dyd me bede, For lack of mony I cold not speed.
Thou scapst not here, quod he, under ij pence, I lyst not yet bestow my almes dede: Thus lacking mony I could not speede.
Efter mony grit and notabill actis done be the said S^r Chrystell contrair Ingland, he was tane at the last, and had to Londoun, and thair put to deid in maist cruell maner.
Woundis he had in mony diuerss place, Bot fayr and weill kepyt was his face.
How mony hearts this day converts O' sinners and o' lasses!
That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble [stubble] Has cost theemony a weary nibble!
As bonnie lasses I hae seen, And mony full as braw, [fine] But for a modest gracefu' mien The like I never saw.
Mony a bairn canna sleep, 'cause he's behavet himsel' ill the day afore!
For we had herded lang thegether on the gowden braes, and lain mony a simmer day amang the broom wi' our een on the sheep, but our hearts verra close the yin to the ither.
Can ye no keep frae rinnin' amang my feet like saemony collie whaulps?
Hoo mony are ye thinkin' o' biddin' for the day, Drows?
Ay, mony a pirn has 'Lisbeth filled to me," said Hendry, settling down to a reminiscence.
They were juist as flichtered themsels, an' mony a time I saw them hittin' the dogs for whinin' at the soond.
Mony, mony a time after he came in frae the kirk on the Sabbath he would stand up at this very window and wave his hands in a reverent way, juist like the minister.
I dinna want him back noo, an' ilka day is takkin' me nearer to him, but formony a lang year I grudged him sair, sair.
It was Eppie 'at found oot, an' she telt naebody but me, though mony a ane kens noo.
Lived high up in yon glen: Her name was Katharine Janfarie, She was courted by mony men.
If ye should die for me, young man, There's few for ye will maen; For mony a better has died for me, Whose graves are growing green.
When he gaed up the Tennies bank, As he gaed mony a morrow, Nine armed men lay in a den, On the dowie braes o' Yarrow.
O there came seeking young Redin Mony a lord and knight, And there came seeking young Redin Mony a lady bright.
She's ta'en him in her arms twa, And gien him kisses thorough; She sought to bind his mony wounds, But he lay dead on Yarrow.
Mony a ane for him makes maen, But nane shall ken whaur he is gane; Over his banes when they are bare, The wind shall blaw for evermair.
O Alison Gross, that lives in yon tower, The ugliest witch in the north countrie, Has trysted me ae day up till her bower, And mony fair speech she made to me.
To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises!
The Scottish Lion lies fu' sair: Gude faith, he's tauld sae mony a lee.
Will he die by the sword or the ball, as his forbears had dune before him, mony ane o' them?
I hae had mony a day's daffing wi' Jean's mither, and they say she bides on wi' them.
I've kend by mony a friend's tale, Far better by this heart of mine, What time and change of fancy avail A true-love knot to untwine.
I trow I hae dreamed of him mony a time, and I think the day will come they will burn me for't.
But I trow, could I get rid of thae gaping gowks of flunkies that hae won into the courtyard at the back of their betters, as mony a man gets preferment, I could make a' right yet.
The secunde, how mony cases may hap in multiplicacioɳ.
Quoeritur, whither he would have spleeted[147] on the regular obedience of their order if he carried the man having mony on him wholly throw the water.
Ut of the mony mentioned I payed also 3 livres 5 souse for a pair of shoes.
As to mony it hath al the several realles of the Spaniard, as of al the Dolles or Dollers of the Empire wt the silver of al their neighbouring nations.
When he was in the mides of the burn the Capucyn demanded him if he had any mony on him.
Thus is al that rested me of thesse 200 francks, the first mony I drow at Poictiers gone.
Persones wil do weill then to keip quiet any mony they have as weill as they can: according the tenor of my fathers letter.
Tis mony a night sin’ first we met, Beneath the greenwood tree.
Not even had a suspeecion o't, though the sodgers hae been sair puzzled, mony a time, aboot hoo I managed to gie them the slip.
To a' this the Covenanters hae submitted for mony weary years withoot rebellion, except maybe in the metter o' the Pentlands, when a wheen o' us were driven to desperation.
Hoo mony years, think ye, are folk to submit to tyranny an' wrang an' fierce oppression for nae sin whatever against the laws o' God or the land?
The moon was clear, the day drew near, The spears in flinders flew, But mony a gallant Englishman Ere day the Scotsmen slew.
And the round tables began, A' there is come to our king's court Mony a well-favoured man.
It's no mony months bypast; it was a lang courtship,--few folk kend the reason by Jenny and mysell.
And whar wad ye sleep but in your ain house, after ye hae been sae mony years frae hame?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
