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"Ah, my bairn," replied the old woman; "I fear I'm no your friend, meikle as I love you. We speak owre, owre often o' the lost; for our foolish hearts find mair pleasure in that than in anything else; but ill does it fit us for being alone.
Yet in 1800 Radnor forest presented a conflagration of nearly twenty miles circumference, which continued to spread for a considerable time, in spite of every effort to arrest its progress. De Barros; Lafitan; Vincent, in the Periplus of the Erythrean sea; Meikle, in his translation of the Lusiad. Harris, in his Collection, Vol. I. p. 663, postpones this discovery to the year 1439. Clarke.
We stopped all trading, and frightened the canoes away by blowing the steam whistle they were much afraid of it, and kept at a very respectful distance. We went up the long sheet of water we saw when we crossed Meikle Bay, finding it in every way suited to its native name, Paroai, or piggish water, and quite useless as a harbour for anything larger than an ordinary boat.
No, not had she been your are countrywoman, and of your are clan and all for the same reasons that make some neglect and look down upon her because Clara is not meikle rich, and is far away from her ane ane friends. Gude Lady Frances Somerset! Clara Hope luves you in her heart, and she's as blythe wi' the thought o' ganging to see you as if she were going to dear Inverary."
His sinews were all strength they were not encumbered with flesh. He was as much a model of activity and suppleness, as Meikle Robin was of bodily power.
"'You are responsible, sir, said the clerk. "'Responsible! the meikle mischief! I exclaimed; 'what am I responsible for, sir? I only put my name doun to oblige him, I tell ye! For what am I responsible?
He himself had seen Bower when he brought him Logan’s letter from London, take his son, Valentine, apart, and knew that Valentine read a letter to him. ‘It was a meikle letter,’ Matthew said, and, if Sprot tell truth, it contained three enclosures. Bower may have stopped his son from reading the melancholy and compromising epistle, and kept it to be read by Sprot.
Many brings the rake, but few the shovel. Meikle must a good heart thole. Many man makes an errand to the hall to bid the Lady good-day. Many cares for meal that has baken bread enough. Make not meikle of little. Meikle spoken, part must spill. Many tines the half-mark whinger for the half-penny whang. Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged. Meikle has, would ay have more.
Gilbert Meikle, who had exercised a deep influence over his early childhood, came to see him and assured him that the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, could cleanse him from all sin. This timely visit convinced him that deliverance was at any rate possible. Gradually he came to feel that the voices to which he was listening were, in reality, the Voice of God.
They are a sight for one half hour in the spring, and no more; and are utterly devoid of odour. William Julius Mickle was born on the 29th of September, 1734, at Longholm, in the county of Dumfries, of which place his father, Alexander Meikle, or Mickle, a minister of the church of Scotland, was pastor. His mother was Julia, daughter of Thomas Henderson, of Ploughlands, near Edinburgh.
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