There were plenty o' rises, but the troots were unco shy.
Adam afore he dees, I wad beunco prood--I hope I do not offend.
He did not speak a word, but only remarked it was "nae doubt unco braw, and wad hae cost a heap o' siller".
We used to saunter about the loanings, no saying meikle, but unco happy; and I was aye restless whan I was out o' her sight.
But there was an unco dust about it; it was tried in the Inner House afore the Feifteen.
It made an unco noise ower a' this country; the bairn disappeared the very day that Supervisor Kennedy cam by his end.
Miss Lucy expected the chaise every moment, and, as the day was fine for the time o'year, they had carried him in his easychair up to the green before the auld castle, to be out of the way of this unco spectacle.
But I thought there was something unco dry in her manner o' saying "maybe sae.
I'm sure ye're unco far frae comfortable below that wread o' snaw.
He was aye ane o' the unco gude, an' here's the gude livin'!
But an I get the first yerk of a chield, I'm no uncofeared for his return.
Ye travel unco late, maisters," said old Pate: "How far may ye be for the night?
I haud unco little by the Parliament House, since the awfu' downfall of the hopes of honest folk that followed the Revolution.
It is guid broose, verra guid broose, that many an honest woman would be unco glad to hae for hersel' and her puir bairns, forbye you!
There hae been unco ill doings here sin your leddyship left.
Despair is an unco ill counselor, and the de'il is aye ready to tak' advantage of its presence.
He attacked the 'unco guid,' who delighted to tell how good they were themselves, and how many were the weaknesses and evil-doings of their neighbours.
There is sound philosophy in the first verse of the poem addressed to the unco guid: The rigid righteous is a fool, The rigid wise another.
He moralises in this quotation not as one of the 'unco guid,' but as a man on what he thought was one of life's most perplexing problems, poverty.
The fact that he attacked and exposed them, and spoke kindly and reasonably to them, in his great 'Address to the Unco Guid,' is an evidence that in this respect at any rate he was a true Christian.
The solan keekit doon into Tam's face, and there was something unco in the creature's ee.
He minded that ropes wasunco 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'.
It was an unco place by night, unco by day; and these were unco sounds, of the calling of the solans, and the plash of the sea and the rock echoes, that hung continually in our ears.
Yon Neil has a queer eye when he regards you; maybe, if I was once out of the gate there might be knives again; these red-shanks are unco grudgeful.
This is an unco splutter, as the oald sow said when she tumbled in the gutter.
Woman," said her mother complainingly, "that's surely an uncohoast ye hae!
I stole in to look at him enow, and his face was unco wan lying down on the pillow.
You're unco late, dear," she would say wearily, but no other reproach did she utter.
Few better were or braver; And yet wi' funny queer Sir John He was an unco shaver For mony a day.
Na, it was no' large, butunco heavy, and she wad na let it out o' her hand ae minute.
Na, na, I did na ken onything anent them; but it is unco awfu'!
Ay, young leddy, nae doubt ye hae heard unco mony a fule tale anent our young laird; but if ye would care to hear the verra truth, ye suld do so frae mysel.
He will mak' unco guid haste," answered the steward, who stood overcome with grief as he gazed upon the ghastly corpse of his unfortunate master.
But this gran' wedding is coming unco near to be naething but a jest.
They tell me that he is an unco scholar, but uncouth in his speech and manners, and how should it be otherwise with no woman near him save my old Lady Mar?
The Captain's sister said there was something about that lad that she likedunco well, and she could not help admiring his looks.
It wadna be fair nor honest, and wad look uncostrange like.
In an unco sma' way, freend," replied the worthy churchman.
I sat hinging my head then, an' looking very blate, but I was unco massy for a' that.
She first grew serious, then sad, and unco pale at times; an' they whiles came on her greetin by hersel.
But, Davie, I'm unco ill; the cauld sweat is brekking on me frae head to foot.
As Riskinhope was the nearest house, I fled for that, where I wakened Davie Tait out o' his bed in an unco plight.
There was some yellow hair, too, on the scull, that was unco like Molly's, but nae body could say.
I was likewise tauld by ane that kens unco weel, that the king has gotten ither tow to teaze than persecuting whigs ony langer, an' that there will soon be an order put out of a very different nature.
Unco weel, an' they're muckle behadden to you for your kind speering.
I haena thought about that yet; but yonder's my master keekin ower the knowe; he'll be thinkin I'm stayin unco lang frae my sheep.
The solan keekit doun into Tam's face, and there was something unco in the creature's ee.
It seems they have unco profits; and, as he's sae clever, he might come to be a graduit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unco" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: creepy; eerie; spooky; uncanny; weird
