How To Use Muckle In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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Pete Muckle, Stow fire station officer, said his crew was called to four incidents caused by the storm.
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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
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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
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Then she gave him Donal's school-slate, with a sklet-pike, and said, "Noo, mak a muckle A, cratur.
Sir Gibbie
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Francie, and muckle ado I had to keep ye baith in order when ye were on the ramble.
Saint Ronan's Well
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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
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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
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Many a mickle makes a muckle.
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Gold-painted shovels were handed out, and on Mr. Muckle's signal all the dignitaries smiled, leaned over, and dug up a scoopful of sand.
Hoot
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Dan peered down into the water alongside, and flourished the big "muckle," ready for all chances.
Captains Courageous
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They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert’s house at Pace and
Redgauntlet
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Ye'll hae a sore leg, I'm thinking!" said I. "Ou aye," he admitted with the same grave smile, "but it's no sae muckle as a 'that -- juist a wee bit skelpit I--
Great Britain at War
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'Hout, na, ye needna be blate about that; their house is muckle enough, and clecking time's aye canty time.'
The Proverbs of Scotland
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“Mony thanks to ye,” he said, scoffingly, “for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi’ that lunt, it’s be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.”
The Black Dwarf
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Flanked on either side by a lass with a muckle great sword, and blowing for all he's worth, Kenny leads the procession into the main exhibition and conference hall, through a glitter of camera flashes.
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She was fond o 'caa'in' the crack, an 'I was wullin' that she should miscaa 'me as muckle as she likit -- for I'm no' yin o 'your crouse, conceity young chaps to be fleyed awa' wi 'a gibe frae a lassie.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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High Street wi 'a muckle loon, near han' as big 's hersel '! an' haith, but Meg had the best o ''t, an' flang him intil the gutter, an 'maist fellt him!
Malcolm
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Luckie Mucklebackit and her family, an appearance of ease, plenty, and comfort, that seemed to warrant their old sluttish proverb, ` ` The clartier the cosier. '
The Antiquary
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They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert's house at
Redgauntlet
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Aye, weel, mony a mickle mak's a muckle, as Papa used to say.
Watershed
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Doobtless sic bairnies hae to suffer frae the prood jeedgment o 'their fellow-men and women, but they may get muckle guid and little ill frae that -- a guid naebody can reive them o'.
Salted with Fire
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Since ye are sae kind as to say ye are content to lend me as muckle siller as will stock and plenish the Heugh-foot, I am content, on my part, to accept the courtesy wi 'mony kind thanks; and troth, I think it will be as safe in my hands as yours, if ye leave it flung about in that gate for the first loon body to lift, forbye the risk o' bad neighbours that can win through steekit doors and lockfast places, as I can tell to my cost.
The Black Dwarf
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Alex Massie also asks:Jeremy Clarkson is a muckle tube.
Public sector strikes - Wednesday 30 November
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I dinna gie a proper sorting to yon twa silly jauds that gard me mak a bogle of you, and a fule of mysell — Ghaists! my certie, I sall ghaist them — If they had their heads as muckle on their wark as on their daffing, they wad play nae sic pliskies — it’s the wanton steed that scaurs at the windle-strae — Ghaists! wha e’er heard of ghaists in an honest house?
Saint Ronan's Well
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Many proverbs use alliteration: "Many a mickle (little) makes a muckle (lot)," rhyme: "Man proposes, God disposes," parallelism: "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," ellipsis: "First come, first served," etc.
The Nature Of Proverbs
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Mucklebackits — we canna get a fin o’ fish — and we hae nae time to send ower to Fairport for beef, and the mutton’s but new killed — and that silly fliskmahoy, Jenny Rintherout, has taen the exies, and done naething but laugh and greet, the skirl at the tail
The Antiquary
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He took a glass of water till the Home Guard barged in and waved a muckle pistol in his face.
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He had nae ill will to the Whig bodies, and liked little to see the blude rin, though, being obliged to follow Sir Robert in hunting and hoisting, watching and warding, he saw muckle mischief, and maybe did some, that he couldna avoid.
Redgauntlet
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The generous officer would have included Mr. Jarvie and me in this general acquittance; but the Bailie, disregarding an intimation from the landlady to “make as muckle of the Inglishers as we could, for they were sure to gie us plague eneugh,” went into a formal accounting respecting our share of the reckoning, and paid it accordingly.
Rob Roy
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Na, I had far rather Tib Mumps kennd which way I was gaun than herthough Tibs no muckle to lippen to neither, and I would advise ye on no account to stay in the house a night.
Chapter XXII
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Yet, with all this, there was about the inmates, Luckie Mucklebackit and her family, an appearance of ease, plenty, and comfort, that seemed to warrant their old sluttish proverb, “The clartier the cosier.”
The Antiquary
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They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts, and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert's house at
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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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
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Yet, with all this, there was about the inmates, Luckie Mucklebackit and her family, an appearance of ease, plenty, and comfort, that seemed to warrant their old sluttish proverb, "The clartier the cosier.
The Antiquary — Complete
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e’en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Yea, yea! puir Tammy and his pate-keschie does mair for ill-luckit, wandering sea-folk than does the muckle kirk and the peerie [3] queen pit together.
Viking Boys
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Bonny, bairnly braws; it's for the like o 'them folk sells the peace of God that passeth understanding; it's for the like o' them, an 'maybe no even sae muckle worth, folk daunton God to His face and burn in muckle hell; and it's for that reason the Scripture ca's them, as I read the passage, the accursed thing.
Merry Men
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Rashes. 1870 version [ "muckle"] in MacLennan SNR (1909),
Craw Killed the Pussy
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You do not have to be at upper secondary school, however, to enjoy the latter, especially if like ‘maist Scottish people ye dinna ken muckle aboot the auld Parliament’.
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'Eh, wuman,' he said in a fear-struck whisper, 'it's awfu' to see ye come oot o 'the yird like a muckle worm!'
Heather and Snow
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Saddletree, somewhat contemptuously; ` ` there's no a callant that e'er carried a pock wi 'a process in't, but will tell you that perduellion is the warst and maist virulent kind of treason, being an open convocating of the king's lieges against his authority (mair especially in arms, and by touk of drum, to baith whilk accessories my een and lugs bore witness), and muckle worse than lese-majesty, or the concealment of a treasonable purpose --- It winna bear a dispute, neighbour.' '
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Mucklestane Moor this morning as would plenish the house and stock the Heugh-foot twice ower, and I am certain sure Elshie wadna grudge us the use of it. ''
The Black Dwarf
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I am no clear if I can pleugh ony place but the Mains and Mucklewhame, at least I never tried ony other grund, and it wadna come natural to me.
Old Mortality
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Syne there wis the muckle river in the north, which rins the wrang wey ...
The Times Literary Supplement
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And and and when I broke up, I was all in a fuddle, a fussle—a muckle.
Wildfire
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Scottish-hearted barons, and with the magistrates of this and other towns, gentles, burgesses, and commons of all ranks, seeing with one eye, hearing with one ear, and upholding the ark with their united strength — And then folk might see men deliver up their silver to the state’s use, as if it had been as muckle sclate stanes.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Bonny, bairnly braws; it's for the like o 'them folk sells the peace of God that passeth understanding; it's for the like o' them, an 'maybe no even sae muckle worth, folk daunton God to His face and burn in muckle hell; and it's for that reason the Scripture ca's them, as I read the passage, the accursed thing.
Merry Men
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“The Almighty guide your course through the troubles of this wicked warld — and the muckle deevil blaw wind in your sails,” she added, in her natural tone, as the guests vanished from her miserable threshold.
Saint Ronan's Well
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'And wheeling an "asker" in a barrow, is not that work?' said he; 'then fling yon muckle stone in to boot: stay,
The Cloister and the Hearth
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* Note M. Sir William Dick of Braid. the Kirk, walking hand in hand with the real noble Scottish-hearted barons, and with the magistrates of this and other towns, gentles, burgesses, and commons of all ranks, seeing with one eye, hearing with one ear, and upholding the ark with their united strength -- And then folk might see men deliver up their silver to the state's use, as if it had been as muckle sclate stanes.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1
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And and and when I broke up, I was all in a fuddle, a fussle—a muckle.
Wildfire
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I'm dootin 'ye'll ha'e back to tak' him there afore him or you's muckle aulder.
My Man Sandy
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Bonny, bairnly braws; it's for the like o 'them folk sells the peace of God that passeth understanding; it's for the like o' them, an 'maybe no even sae muckle worth, folk daunton God to His face and burn in muckle hell; and it's for that reason the Scripture ca's them, as I read the passage, the accursed thing.
Merry Men
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Do you know there's this old church in Aberdeen that's now a great muckle warren o' a pub that can hold 1,500 folk?
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'Mebbe the warl' winna tribble itsel aboot ye sae muckle as e'en to lichtly ye! 'returned his companion quietly.
Heather and Snow
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They were baith bred to mainers by the beuk, and onie ane o 'them had as muckle smeddum and rumblegumtion as the half o' some presbyteries that you and I baith ken.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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Sae, Master Butler, as we were aye neebours 'bairns, forby onything else that may hae been spoken between us, I trust you winna skrimp yoursell for what is needfu' for your health, since it signifies not muckle whilk o 'us has the siller, if the other wants it.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Meiklewham; “and albeit ye were nae great gun at the bar, ye might aye have gotten a Sheriffdom, or a Commissaryship, amang the lave, to keep the banes green; and sae ye might have saved your estate from deteriorating, if ye didna mend it muckle.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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But to do them justice; they didna propale sae muckle about them as poor Mr. Treddles did — it’s like they were better used to them.”
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Gien I was you, I wadna tell fowk any sic nonsense as yon; I wad tell them 'at ilk ane' at disna dee his wark i 'the warl', an 'dee 't the richt gait, 's no the worth o' a minnin, no to say a whaul, for ilk ane o 'thae wee craturs dis the wull o' him 'at made' im wi 'ilka whisk o' his bit tailie, fa'in 'in wi' a 'the jabble o' the jaws again 'the rocks, for it's a' ae thing -- an 'a' to haud the muckle sea clean.
Sir Gibbie
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The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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` ` Her nainsell muckle obliged till the Bailie's honour, '' replied
Rob Roy
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` ` Mony thanks to ye, 'he said, scoffingly, ` ` for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi that lunt, it's be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.' '
The Black Dwarf
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Many a pickle makes a muckle.
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They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts, and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be in Sir Roberts house at Pace and Yule, and such high seasons.
Wandering Willie’s Tale
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Weel, weel, sir, I may na ', an' I dinna, ken sae muckle as mony; but when ye preach a sermon aboot my Lord and Saviour, I fin 'my heart going out to Him, like lintseed out of a bag.
Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
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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 '
Waverley — Complete
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There's naethin 'waur nor Sim MacTaggart oot there i' the gairden, wastin 'his wund on a wumman that's owre muckle ta'en up i' the noo wi 'the whillywhaes o' a French sneckdrawer that haesnae the smeddum to gi'e her a toozlin 'at the' oor she needs it maist.
Doom Castle
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Mony thanks to ye," he said, scoffingly, "for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi 'that lunt, it's be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.
The Black Dwarf
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At length, however, she departed, grumbling between her teeth, that she wad rather lock up a haill ward than be fiking about thae niff-naffy gentles that gae sae muckle fash wi their fancies.
Chapter XLIV
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Mr Fairbairn, 51, will take 27 days to journey from Bishop Rock on the Isles of Scilly in the South West, to the lighthouse at Muckle Flugga in Shetland, which is set on the most northerly rock in the British Isles.
Undefined
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The piper wants muckle that wants the nether chaft.
The Proverbs of Scotland
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Oh," said Callum Beg, "it's either the muckle Sunday hersel ', or the little government Sunday that they caa the Fast!
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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So, when your plottie is done, I'll be muckle obliged to ye to light the bedroom candles, and put out the double moulds, and e'en show yoursells to your beds; for douce folks, sic as the like of you, should set an example by ordinary.
St. Ronan's Well
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-- Weel, whether it was 'at their herts was ower muckle wrappit up i' this ae human cratur for the growth o 'their sowls, I dinna ken -- there bude to be some rizzon for't -- this last ane o' a 'begud in his turn to dwine an' dwin'le like the lave; an 'whaurever thae twa puir fowk turnt themsel's i' their pangs, there stude deith, glowerin 'at them oot o' his toom e'en.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock
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To his face she referred to him as a doited sumph, but to Grizel pleading for him she admitted that despite his warts and quarrelsome legs he was a great big muckle sonsy, stout, buirdly well set up, wise-like, havering man.
Tommy and Grizel
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But we maun a 'live the day, and have our dinner; and there's Vich Ian 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 Ronald of
The Waverley
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“The Almighty guide your course through the troubles of this wicked warld — and the muckle deevil blaw wind in your sails,” she added, in her natural tone, as the guests vanished from her miserable threshold.
Saint Ronan's Well
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I can mak 'a sang; and anither is, I can mak' a tune till't; and a third is, I can sing the tane to the tither, that is whan I haena had either ower muckle or ower little o 'the tappit hen.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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His e'en were starin 'fair afore him; he wudna kent his ain tattie cairt, I believe, he was that muckle taen up wi' his merchin '.
My Man Sandy
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Note M. Sir William Dick of Braid. the Kirk, walking hand in hand with the real noble Scottish-hearted barons, and with the magistrates of this and other towns, gentles, burgesses, and commons of all ranks, seeing with one eye, hearing with one ear, and upholding the ark with their united strength --- And then folk might see men deliver up their silver to the state's use, as if it had been as muckle sclate stanes.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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` ` Ay, 'said his patron, ` ` but ye ken we maun hae turnips for the lang sheep, billie, and muckle hard wark to get them, baith wi the pleugh and the howe; and that wad sort ill wi' sitting on the broomy knowe, and cracking about Black Dwarfs, and siccan clavers, as was the gate lang syne, when the short sheep were in the fashion. ''
The Black Dwarf
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Sae, Master Butler, as we were aye neebours’ bairns, forby onything else that may hae been spoken between us, I trust you winna skrimp yoursell for what is needfu’ for your health, since it signifies not muckle whilk o’ us has the siller, if the other wants it.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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She turns 't ower and ower jist like a muckle tyke (dog) worryin 'a rottan (rat).'
Robert Falconer
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Many proverbs use alliteration: "Many a mickle (little) makes a muckle (lot)," rhyme: "Man proposes, God disposes," parallelism: "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," ellipsis: "First come, first served," etc.
The Nature Of Proverbs
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Deith canna weel be muckle like onything we think aboot it; but there maun surely be a heap o 'fowk unco dreary an' fusionless i 'the warl' deith taks us til; an 'the mair I think aboot it, the mair likly it seems we'll hae a heap to du wi' them -- a sair wark tryin 'to lat them ken what they are, an' whaur they cam frae, an 'hoo they maun gang to win hame -- for deith can no more be yer hame nor a sair fa' upo 'the ro'd be yer bed.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock
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They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts, and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Roberts house at Pace and Yule, and such high seasons.
Wandering Willie’s Tale
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“And I hope your lordship disna want that muckle,” said
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Evidently "muckle" could not be the dinner-horn, so Harvey passed over the maul, and Dan scientifically stunned the fish before he pulled it inboard, and wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a "gob-stick.
Captains Courageous
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The footballer has vowed to walk out on the club that he loves if they carry on meeting his heartfelt pleas for talks on his future with a muckle wall of silence.
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He does not regard the Scotchman's "mickle," because he does not stop to consider that the end is a "muckle.
The Negro Problem
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MacLennan SNR (1909), 18; differs: 2. 3-4 I got a muckle ratton, rinnin 'doon the stair.
Poussie Poussie Baudrons
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Aye, weel, mony a mickle mak's a muckle, as Papa used to say.
Watershed
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e’en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Sae, Master Butler, as we were aye neebours 'bairns, forby onything else that may hae been spoken between us, I trust you winna skrimp yoursell for what is needfu' for your health, since it signifies not muckle whilk
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
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'Gie him a shairp upward yark, my leddy,' says I; 'there canna be muckle strength o' resistance left in him by this time! '
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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She was fond o 'caa'in' the crack, an 'I was wullin' that she should miscaa 'me as muckle as she likit -- for I'm no' yin o 'your crouse, conceity young chaps to be fleyed awa' wi 'a gibe frae a lassie.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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Indeed, he had previously stipulated with his mother that he was to manage matters his own way; for though he readily allowed his general inferiority of understanding, and filially submitted to the guidance of his mother on most ordinary occasions, yet he said, "For getting a service, or getting forward in the warld, he could somegate gar the wee pickle sense he had gang muckle farther than hers, though she could crack like ony minister o 'them a'.
Old Mortality, Volume 1.
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I can mak 'a sang; and anither is, I can mak' a tune till't; and a third is, I can sing the tane to the tither, that is whan I haena had either ower muckle or ower little o 'the tappit hen.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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She stude up an 'spak weel, an' weel oot, but no to muckle profit, as 't seemed to me; only I'm maybe no a fair jeedge, for I cudna be rid o 'the notion' at she was lattin 'at mysel' a 'the time.
Malcolm
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But I never heedit him that muckle, for ye see it wasna him 'at peyt me -- the mair by token' at gien it had been him 'at had the peyin' o 'me, it's never a baubee wad I hae seen o' my ain siller; but the trustees peyt me, ilka plack, an 'sae I was indepen'ent like, an' luit him say his say.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock
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I'm dootin 'Moses hasna muckle o' a hame wi 'her, the gloidin' tawpie
My Man Sandy
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How could you dispute what's plain law, man?" said Saddletree, somewhat contemptuously; "there's no a callant that e'er carried a pock wi 'a process in't, but will tell you that perduellion is the warst and maist virulent kind of treason, being an open convocating of the king's lieges against his authority (mair especially in arms, and by touk of drum, to baith whilk accessories my een and lugs bore witness), and muckle worse than lese-majesty, or the concealment of a treasonable purpose -- It winna bear a dispute, neighbour.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
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It will be but a muckle through-stane laid doun to kiver the gowd — tak the pick till’t, and pit mair strength, man — ae gude down-right devvel will split it, I’se warrant ye — Ay, that will do Od, he comes on wi’ Wallace’s straiks!”
The Antiquary
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He had nae ill-will to the Whig bodies, and liked little to see the blude rin, though, being obliged to follow Sir Robert in hunting and hosting, watching and warding, he saw muckle mischief, and maybe did some, that he couldna avoid.
Wandering Willie’s Tale
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Aff he went when he got the siller, and a bit later an auld great-aunt left him a bit mair, sae he took a muckle big farm doon sooth, and noo he's at the inn cracking crouse aboot his pedigree beasts and sheep, and swankin 'awa as to what he's done syne he left these parts, just as if we didna ken the sort o' man he was, and aye will be.
Border Ghost Stories
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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News o him yon muckle callant, whistlin at the smiddy door
Gillie Mor
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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’
Waverley
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Do you open that muckle gate, or do I stand here until the rain rots it away?
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At length, however, she departed, grumbling between her teeth, that 'she wad rather lock up a haill ward than be fiking about thae niff-naffy gentles that gae sae muckle fash wi' their fancies. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete
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‘When they cast the colours at the end of the Selkirk common riding a great, muckle lump comes into my throat, even though I ken it's a load o' rubbish.’
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So, when your plottie is done, I’ll be muckle obliged to ye to light the bedroom candles, and put out the double moulds, and e’en show yoursells to your beds; for douce folks, sic as the like of you, should set an example by ordinary. —
Saint Ronan's Well
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Ye may threep and threep and wampish your arms abute, as muckle as ye wuss, ye silly gowks, I canna tell ye mair an I wad.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
