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How To Use muckle In A Sentence

• Ye see we march on the tap o’ Touthop-rigg after we pass the Pomoragrains; for the Pomoragrains, and Slackenspool, and Bloodylaws, they come in there, and they belang to the Peel; but after ye pass Pomoragrains at a muckle great saucer-headed cutlugged stane, that they ca’ Charlies Chuckie, there Dawston Cleugh and Charlies-hope they march. Chapter XXXVI
• But we maun a 'live the day, and have our dinner; and there's Vich lan Vohr has packed his dorlach, and Mr. Waverley's wearied wi' majoring yonder afore the muckle pier-glass; and that grey auld stoor carle, the Baron o 'Bradwardine that shot young Waverley
• Regular for a fortnight were the inquiries of the Antiquary at the veteran Caxon, whether he had heard what Mr. Lovel was about; and as regular were Caxon's answers, "that the town could learn naething about him whatever, except that he had received anither muckle letter or twa frae the south, and that he was never seen on the plainstanes at a '. The Antiquary — Complete
• Pete Muckle, Stow fire station officer, said his crew was called to four incidents caused by the storm.
• Tak the drunkard frae his whusky, the deboshed frae his debosh, the sweirer frae his aiths, the leear frae his lees; and giena ony o 'them ower muckle o' yer siller at ance, for fear 'at they grow fat an' kick an 'defy God and you. Robert Falconer
• But the road's unco wild, and sae mony red-coats about, forby the whigs, that are no muckle better (the young lads o 'them) if they meet a fraim body their lane in the muirs. Old Mortality, Complete
• Then she gave him Donal's school-slate, with a sklet-pike, and said, "Noo, mak a muckle A, cratur. Sir Gibbie
• Francie, and muckle ado I had to keep ye baith in order when ye were on the ramble. Saint Ronan's Well
• Doom's done wi '; it's his decreet, and I'm no' a day ower soon wi 'the promise o' the Red Sodger -- for the which I'm muckle obleeged to you, Doom Castle
• Diel, and the damn'd loosey Rump is aud in aud; the muckle Diel set it i'solt, and his Dam drink most for't. The Roundheads: or, The Good Old Cause