10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLEGLY»
Discover the use of
glegly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
glegly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Tho' we aft wad glegly watch. The thievin' hounds we ne'er could catch, ALLAN
Lilts (1874' 247. Abd. To this auld Colin glegly 'gan to hark, Ross Helenore (1768
) 139, ed. 1812. 51;. Glegly he could skin a veal [calf], Mum Poems (1818) 18.
2
Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. A-Kut
I have met with no vestige of this word in A. S., O. E., or provincial E. Glegly, adv.
1. Expeditiously, S. See Sup. Some fock, like bees, fu' glegly rin, To bikes bang'd
fu' o' strife and din. Fergusson's Poems, ii. 105. 2. Attentively, S. To this auld ...
Oh ! the clink o' the chink is an unco cheery sound ; Oh ! it's siller gars the wheels
o' life gae glegly round ! I lo'ed my Eppie true, I lo'ed my Eppie lang ; She gar'd
me tak' the rue, She gar'd me change my sang. Aidd Wattie winna lang craw ...
Dorothea Maria Ogilvy, 1873
4
A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
... but, as signifying quickness of vision, would correspond with one of the most
common senses of gleg. Glean by itself, however, as signifying sagax, nearly
approximates to Su.G. Dan. glo, attentis oculis videre. Glegly, adv. J.
Expeditiously.
5
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: ...
G. Damglo, Sibb. by mistake views this word as a provincial corr. of glad, glid,
smooth. I have met with no vestige of this word in A. S., O. E. or Provinc. E. '
GLEGLY, ad'v. 1. Expeditiously, S. Some fock, like bees, t'u'glegly rin, To bikes
bang'd ...
Vara right, vara right — that's what I hae aften said ; a kail-blade, or a colliflour,
glances sae glegly by moonlight, it's like a leddy in her diamonds." So saying, off
went Andrew Fairservice with great glee. He had to walk about two miles, a
labour ...
7
Poems on Various Subjects: By Robert Fergusson. In Two Parts
By Robert Fergusson. In Two Parts Robert Fergusson. So l on Fgfi wad glowr np
more; But gallop'd to Enmmi shot-ex HAME CONTE'N-T. 'Am-nag',Ta all 'whom it
may conrerit. OME sdck, like but, so' glegly rin i To bykes bang'd {n* o'flrife and ...
8
The Trial of James Stuart, Esq., Younger of Dunearn, Before ...
... ramnagant, And mak him King s agent, And hech ! how his fury will fa', man?
And they crack and we tak, &c. Ther's stot-feeder Stuart, Kent for that fat.cow—art,
How glegly he kicks ony ba', man ; And Gibson, l,mg chiel, 'an, Whase height ...
Sandy, my man, look unco glegly amang the brakens as ye gae alang, for there's
no knowing whereabouts the gudewife may ha'e tumbled aff : and I'll be
twalpennyworth in thy debt ; sae Gude gae wi' ye, Sirs, and my blessing! Dinna
spare ...
10
Avonmore, and Other Poems
THE DYING BROOK TO AN OLD FRIEND* O Jam1e ! tak' your last sad look O'
your auld frien', the dyin' brook, Whase sang has fired ye mair than book To steer
your way, An' glegly mony a clour to jouk In life's rough day. In life's glad morn ...
Christopher Murray Dawson, 1891
