He t'reatened as much when he arrife here unt I tol' him t'e house wass full.
Wass monsieur serious in hees command t'at I exclude t'e Prince of Zeit-Zeit?
But the lairds said it wass better for sheep, and then they said it wass not good for sheep, so they put it under deer, and now there is no black cattle anywhere in Skye.
But all the rest of Skye wass the fine land for black cattle.
But I wass asking you, if you come from Achranich, if you haf seen anybody on the road.
I wass wishing the war wass by, and the Germans all dead.
I wass telling him that we had a poor small house, but he says he will not be minding it.
Over in Skye wass the fine land for black cattle, and every man had his bit herd on the hillside.
I dold you she wass to marry Lord Dunmore; if you hatt asked me I could haff dold you somedings more--" "What?
It wass printed in dot Efening Gazette, all apout Foxcroft how he iss come from Sir Peter Warren to make some troubles for Sir John Johnson mit dot money he took from Miss Warren, sir!
It wass to hellup you, sir," he protested, spreading his fingers and waving his hands excitedly.
When I passed py dot Boundary again, she wass waiting under the drees--" "How long since?
I wass so sure you would see her--" Exasperated, I shook my fist at the peddler.
I wass neffer thinking the world wass so big, and it wass many a time since me and Mr. M'Alpine hef come away from Styornoway I wass thinking it wass too far for me effer to get back again.
But it is many a one will say to me, before I hef left the Lewis, that I wass not to come home unless you wass coming too, and I wass to bring you back with me, Miss Sheila.
It will be a great thing for me to go back to sa Lewis, and tell them I wass seeing you, and you wass looking so well.
Just before she left Lewis her father had called her to him, and said, "Sheila, I wass wanting to tell you about something.
I wass thinking it was safer to bring sa two," replied Mairi, blushing all over the fair and pretty face.
She'll think it's a wean that wass greetin'," says Hecky MacCrimmon frae Skye.
Noo, dry your eyes, lass, and pe off to your milking mirofer--Crumple iss moaning as if her udder wass going to crack.
It wass fery kind of ye to think of giving me such a present as this, Angus; but I cannot possibly take it.
O ay, Maggie; it iss no doot a peautiful poat--she wass sure to pe that if Angus built her; but it iss fery easy to see what Angus MacTavish iss driving at.
It wasswrong of ye, Angus, efer to think I would forget ye,' she said.
Maybe he'll find he has peen counting without his host mirofer, if he thinks he iss going to get you for his wife by gifing you a fishing-poat; what wass a fishing-poat to a lass like you?
Gh]iff thatt tu willt full innwarrdli[gh] withth fulle trowwthe lefenn All thatt tatt wass bitacnedd taer, to lefenn and to trowwenn.
Some said you wass dead, others that you wass taken prisoner by the Wild Boars.
Of course he knows hiss services by heart; hiss only job wass with the Lessons.
You don't look much older than you wass when you went off to London to be an architect.
The prize,' he wass saying, 'wass to encourache ahl the people to attend to their gardens, and not to give Archie MacNicol thirty shullins a year.
When I went to them this morning, I wasssaying to them 'You hef no right here.
For itwass Miss Stanley herself that would be saying that.
If it was brekkin the law," said he, rather gloomily, "it wass not us that wass brekkin it first.
But I am sure there wass only the one end to it in any case, when they began to pick up the sticks.
It wass a punishment for me, that I wass putting my name on the paper.
And you will not know that I wass tekken the prize for the garden, ay, more as three or four years?
For mebbe he wass sending the men over to the mainland, and himself staying on the island.
It's myself that wass hearing Hector seh that if he wass catching the Gillie Ciotach with a gun, he would brek the gun over his head.
Well, I wass not seeing Mr. Ross at ahl, for he wass aweh up on the north side of the island, setting snares for the rabbits.
And Miss Stanley need not be thinking there wass any more in our minds than that; for Hector is a fine lad, and a fine keeper, and what harm will a dram do to anyone when ahl the work is done?
There's no luvvin crayture could get up--it's far worse than I wass remembering it.
Afterwards he wass ferry angry; and in court he stood up as prave as a lion and said he had neffer seen the order and that he had neffer sent it away whateffer, and that it wass all lies.
It iss a most extraordinary affair, for there iss not a man on the island one could effer be suspecting of doing such a thing; and if it wass a stranger, the wonder iss how he will be managing to come and go without being seen.
No, puir lad; no one who will pe knowing him will hev been pelieving that of him; and it wass ferry hard that efferything went against him at the trial, whateffer.
If you wass not to be letting my mother know it iss grateful to you I will be, sir.
Allan was saved from the necessity of replying by the reappearance of Duncan, to say that 'The young gentlemen wass to please mek haste and come at once, as effery onewass waiting for them.
He wass expecting a letter; and it will be a stormy evening and the mail steamer will not be coming in till ferry late so that the letters wass not sent away that night, but Neil wass allowed to look among them for his own.
That wass a treatful thing to do, to pe tale-bearers.
There wass a registered letter for the laird; and it come out in the evidence that Neil would see it, and that no one else but only Mr. and Mrs. MacAlister and Neil himself could have peen knowing that it wass there.
I wass thinking from Mr. Allan's looks these last days tat there would pe some mischief pefore ferry long!
It wass comin' they were every year, sure's I sit here, but it wassold John Mackenzie he wass going after them on the Sabbath, and it wass not coming any more after that they were.
A terrible year for sickness it wass, though the harrin' was that plenty, they wass takin' them in buckets.
It wass a bit of himself he was catching them with.
Not a fack at all, sir; but John Roy he wass tellin' it to me.
But it wass the day before the buryin' that a postcard wass coming to say the whiskey was to be at the pier.
It wass not keepin' ferry well, but it was eating them were.
Miss Marjory, wass I no tellin' you he was bonnie, and iss he not bonnie, whatever?
She's the far pestest musick as efferwass for the mountains.
Ay, I hef seen tons of coal waiting for them at Invershin for near a fortnight when there wass a heavy spate on the ruvver.
And I would not like it myself, if I wass no more of a man than what you wass!
It wass ferry good weather we were having since you hef come here.
But he wass afraid to speak to her; and Sheila herself will know nothing of why he came twice to Borva the last year.
The father laughed aloud at this simplicity on the part of the Englishman: "If we wass to keep in-doors in the bad weather, it would be all the winter we would be in-doors!
Ferry well," said Mackenzie, a trifle disappointed, "but you would find several of the English in the Lewis if you wass living here.
And I hef known there wass a time coming when I would give away my Sheila to some young man; and there iss no use complaining of it.
Son he consawyt in his witt prewalye, In to that land quha wass of maist party.
Fyve men was chargit to keipe it weill all tid; Twa wasson fute, and thre on horss couth ride.
Than demyt thai all that itwass wicht Wallas; Off for tyme thar he spyit had the toune.
Zat wass awright, only zey let z' lights go out and zere wass wrecks.
I tell you I was out zere last night and z' light wass dark and z' devil walking abroad on z' waters.
The sailor wass good deal puzzled by this remark, but when its purport was explained to him, he gave vent to a vigorous chuckle, notwithstanding Sam's stern order to "lie still.
I wants to wass my hands in de soup, an' he won't let me.
It wass a bad day this day that I wass come to London to find you going away from your own house;" and Mairi began to cry.
I wass told it is ferry good English they hef in Stornoway," said Mairi, not very sure whether Mr. Ingram was joking or not.
Had they heard of the steward on board one of the Clyde steamers who had a percentage on the drink consumed in the cabin, and who would call out to the captain, "Why wass you going so fast?
And it wass a bad day sa day you left the Lewis whatever; and if you will go back again, Miss Sheila, you will neffer hef to go away again, not any more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
