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- adverb Scotland In a
gleg manner, alertedly.
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Examples
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` ` 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. ''
Rob Roy 1887
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"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."
Rob Roy — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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"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."
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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a lady's looking-glass to her een; and all t 'while she's peeping and peeping out o' t 'window to see if t' mare stands quiet; and then looking at a bit of a splash on her riding-skirt; and then glancing glegly round at wer counting-house cobwebs and dust, and thinking what mucky folk we are, and what a grand ride she'll have just i 'now ower Nunnely Common.
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