Little hand and muckle gold' close shall lie within my hold, As the sword did, to prevail.
Little hand clasps muckle gold, or it were not worth the hold Of thy son, good uncle mine!
A've often thocht oor doctor's little better than the Gude Samaritan, an' the Pharisees didna think muckle o' his chance aither in this warld or that which is tae come.
Not that he talked sae muckle himsel, but he was aye askin about something or ither, and kept my tongue waggin' a' the time.
She was a sweet bit lassie, but she was frail in the constitootion, ye see, and the hard famishing winter was ower muckle for her feeble frame.
When up louped a muckle spotted trout, and in a moment dragged the line to the other side, then spanked up the burn at an unco rate, running the line aff the reel, which birred like a spinnin' wheel.
It chanced, ye see, that Tam keeked up, and he was awaur of a muckle solan, and the solan pyking at the line.
There he sat, a muckle fat, white hash of a man like creish, wi' a kind of a holy smile that gart me scunner.
The muckleblack de'il was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.
As long as we lie here we're safe; but I'm nane sae mucklenearer to my ship or the coast of France.
Nae doubt they burn for it in muckle hell, but they have a grand time here of it, whatever!
He was fond of a lass and fond of a glass, and fond of a ran-dan; but I could never hear tell that he was muckle use for honest employment.
O promise me now, Clerk Colvill, 5 Or it will cost ye muckle strife, Ride never by the wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life.
Here lies Mass Andrew Gray, Of whom ne muckle good can I say: He was ne Quaker, for he had ne spirit, He was ne Papist, for he had ne merit.
He was ne Turk, for he drank muckle wine, He was ne Jew, for he eat muckle swine.
No that muckle is to be expected o' a man that wad write to puir Janet Lyon instead o' to me, Duncan MacAlpine!
We climbed down by the steep road over the rocks--the same that Will of the Cloak Moss and Muckle Sandy o' Auchenhay once held for two hours again the gaugers, till the loaded boats got off clear again into deep water.
Faith, no, I wadna marry any student that ever stepped in leather--I ken ower muckle aboot them!
But she kens as weel as us when the posts come in, besides the letters she gets from Agnes Anne--some that cost as muckle as sevenpence--a ruination and a disgrace!
Mrs. Galbraith says there's as muckle drink drucken in Poosie Nancie's on Seterday nicht as in Johnnie Shields' in the Wynd, but some way it seems different.
Ye ken as muckle as me; but as she's made her bed she maun lie on't.
Maybe no', but likely she has that muckle adae she canna get,' replied Liz fearlessly.
I gaed up to Colquhoun Street one day to ask Walter, but he didna gie me muckle cuttin'.
There was ower muckle preachin', and some of the ladies looked at us as if we were dirt,' responded Teen candidly.
If he was my uncle, and had as muckle money as they say he has, I'd walk oot in silk and velvet in spite o' his face.
White pan, black pan, Burn me to death, Tak' a muckle gully And cut my breath.
Ay,' said he again, 'it will be a gey evil day for Scotland when she ceases to believe i' the muckle black Deil.
He looked from the tail of his eye upon 'Meg wi' the muckle mouth.
Aiblins Davie Hume has sappit his belief, and the muckle Deil, kennin' that, is thrawin' a flee ower him as for a saumon the noo.
Hoo muckle would it come to, think ye--£100 belike?
I'm tell't that he's left a muckle legacy to the Foundlings.
Gude kens what they learn folk there; it's nomuckle service onyway.
The gate they're gaun the noo, they couldnae win through an the muckle deil were there to pilot them.
Wi' a' that he had upon his mind, it was gey and unlikely Mr. Soulis wad get muckle sleep.
There's no sae muckle harm in the land deils, when a's said and done.
And if ye had a man, ye would bemuckle made up wi' him," she said.
It's a place that thinks muckle of itself; but nae doubt it would seem but a poor bit town to you coming from the South?
We're no minding mucklein Scotland if they're absentees or no; they can please themsels.
You wouldna be so muckle ta'en up with them if ye kent as much about men as me.
It's nae muckleto be prood on; but it's better ner bein' ootside in siclike weather, I doot!
Ye're the new gauger we've haird sae muckle aboot, I'm thinkin'.
Neither my father nor me ever minded muckle what our mither said.
Muckle evidently was not the kind of pitcher to stand coolly under such bantering.
Mind ye, yon Vikings, that ye hae sae muckle sang about, did not aye come aff wi' the best o' it.
I wadna hae believed, had onybody but yersel tauld me, yer nature could hae changed sae muckle as to tak delight in sic a life.
She'll no stay behind a carriage; she has owre muckle gentle bluid in her veins.
My heart is sair to hear ye speak wi sae muckle relish o' sic bloody wark.
How muckle o' yer national dish did ye eat durin that time?
It's a shame for a wheenmuckle chaps like you to be trying yer cantrips that way on a laddie like me.
That St. Michael was Lord of the Muckle and the Mickle, is supported in the statement that "he was prince of the synagogue of the Jews".
So let them fa' to wark as fast's they like, and muckle guid may't do them!
I did as I was ordered by the body, and he next caused Miss Cochrane to take me by the right hand, and repeat a few words after him, muckle to the same effect.
An impudent, upsettin brat he was, although no muckle higher than that table.
O still ayont themuckle sea, Still are ye dear, and dear to me, Auld Reekie, still and on!
She shall bide in the cove behind the muckle oven, where three times a week Jeremy bakes the bread.
Assuredly ye did na kill him, and folks canna a'ways say as muckle for ye.
There is na muckle good in drawing inferences from imaginary evils.
It's weel kenned we hae na muckle love for ane anither; but fair play is bonnie play.
On ilka finger she has a ring, And on the foremost she has three; As muckle goud is on her head As wad buy an earldom of land to thee.
Ye'll bid him bring a shower o his best love, But and a bottle o his wine, And do to me as I did to him in time past, And brought him out o muckle pine.
O promise me now, Clerk Colvill, Or it will cost ye muckle strife, Ride never by the wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life.
This trait is wanting in Danish #D#, where, though traces of the originally demonic nature of the knight remain, the mucklegold of the maids already appears as the motive for the murders.
The miller's bairns has muckle need, They were bearing in water to bake some breid.
And he has tane up a muckle stane, And thrown it farther than I coud see; If I had been as strong as ere Wallace was, I coud na lift it to my knie.
Was she wae, he held her sae, And still he bade her bide; The rusty smith her leman was, For a' her muckle pride.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muckle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
