I was stunned sair by the fa', but I heard a sound o' voices as I recovered.
Madras Roads; and mony a sairthocht has it gien me that we war unfreends when we parted.
I hae been sairdealt wi'; but I forgie ye; and I forgie also your wife.
To leave thee behind me my heart issair pained; By ease that's inglorious no fame can be gained; And beauty and love's the reward of the brave, And I must deserve it before I can crave.
To wean me frae these waefu' thoughts, They took me to the town; But sair on ilka weel-kenned face I missed the youthfu' bloom.
Unsheltered on the bare hill-side, The sleety storm is sair to bide; Caught in its arms, O wae betide The hapless hour!
In thy sair stress, whar will ye hide Frae its fell power?
There you are at last, Miss Isla--a sicht forsair een.
But, as I hae been telling ye, my son David had driven wool to Annan for a fortnight, and he was sair worn out.
If it is saesair to lose a friend, what, Lewie--what wad it be to lose a lover?
It was sair wark, and he had but little sleep for a fortnight thegether.
Time and chance are but a tide, Slighted love is sair to bide; Shall I, like a fool, quoth he, For a haughty hizzie dee?
Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord, A bluidy man I trow thou be; For mony a heart thou hast made sair That ne'er did wrong to thine or thee.
Three or four of his fellow officers were in the secret of his marriage, and when he had disappeared these talked loudly about it, and there was sair grief and anger among the Scottish regiment at Leslie's seizure.
Who would have thought that so young a lad should have got himself mixed up in such sair trouble!
Sae gin ye judge my fau't sae sair That grace ye daurna gie, Tear me to bits, fient haet I care, And sink me in the sea.
That's ane o' the considerations 'at hings some sair upo' me: see what we hae dune!
I wad think twise, my lord, afore I wad sair (serve) them as ill as they saired me.
He micht jist turn his heid; an' ae luik wad sair me for a hunner year.
I canna mak oot what sud set a great man like Milton sae sair agane a puir cratur like Cherles.
Look oot, there's the corpse o' a wumman, sair mangelt and deid by her lane.
Twa sair woundit Jocks wi' a lassie jist like ma wee Jeannie at hame.
There's a sair bit in there,' he said, as if his own bosom had been that of another mortal.
An' I sair misdoobt gin mony o' them 'at pat it in her heid wad do as muckle.
Something beirs 't in upo' me 'at he wadna be sae sair upo' me himsel'.
Anderson for four year noo, an' he's sair pleased wi' her.
It's a sair time when the mouse looks out o' the meal barrel wi' a tear in its ee.
As sair greets the bairn that's paid at e'en as it that gets its paiks in the morning.
The Skipper lookit sair offended, And muttering growled, his hand extended.
And oh the thought issair That she'll mine be never mair, I'm alane in the North Countrie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
