glisk

Mrs. Hanway-Harley herself was struck by some shadow of the truth; but she got no more than what Scotchmen call a "glisk," and she gave the matter no sufficient weight.

The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

Dinnae be pit aff if a poem luiks a bittie difficult at first glisk.

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She kent onyway, and it was for no ither reason she gie'd him the route, unless -- unless she had a notion o 'the Frenchman frae the first glisk o' him.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

I have a class at the Mission Sabbath Schule, ye see, an 'I was genna hae them at a cup o' tea on Setarday, an 'I thocht o' gien them a bit glisk o 'the magic lantern.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Here am I at my prime and over it, and no glisk of the future before me.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Wad ha'e gane a lang mile for ae glisk o 'my Jean.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

I'm afraid I but half comprehended his meaning, but the rapture of his eye infected me like a glisk of the sun.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

When I caught the glisk of your eye: but she was late;

Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920

But as they cam nearer I got a glisk which made me run like daft, and lang ere I was up on them I saw it was Yeddie.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

But woman may hear it and lay it up in her soul and bide at hame, while a man, if he get but a glisk of it in his fool's heart, must needs up and awa 'to the warld's end on some daft-like ploy.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907