How To Use Ruckle In A Sentence
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There were three blankets upon three raised beds---one large and old, the other two little more than truckle beds.
STARDUST
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That and this ruckle of stones we sit in are all that's left of what was my father's and my grandfather's and their forebears back till the dark of time.
Doom Castle
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Plenty of crusty bread and a big salad with a simplified cheese board, such as a whole Brie and a small truckle of Cheddar, will go down better than a pudding.
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Britons, fortified by a much more active, muscular liberalism, would no longer truckle to politically correct notions of passive tolerance," says the Prime Minister.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain
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Each truckle of cheese is covered in a wax coating.
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'We be bruckle folk here -- the best o' us hardly honest sometimes, what with hard winters, and so many mouths to fill, and
The Bibliotaph and Other People
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It is not too much to say that almost every step of the weary sultry way was in pain, and I reached Ujiji a mere ruckle of bones.
How I Found Livingstone
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Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be.
A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 2
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He did let go, but only with one hand, and this in order to slide it down her leg, evidently meaning to get hold of her skirt and ruckle it up.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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They frankly welcomed the new-comer, and if they did not, as Ingred had bitterly prognosticated, exactly "truckle" to her, they certainly began to treat her as a favorite.
A Popular Schoolgirl
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“Let those whose servility of soul qualified them for the menial task truckle to the Executive,” he declared.
A Country of Vast Designs
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A Vacherin Mont d'Or with some really good crackers is hard not to like, as is a Stilton or a truckle of English cheddar.
In the Mood for Stuff You Can Burn, Eat or Read
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Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated.
Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
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He groaned to the young man in a whisper, “This is a bruckle het, maister, I’m much afeared!
The Woodlanders
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At twenty, though obliged to trudge on foot from town to town, and country to country, paying for a supper and a bed by a tune on the flute, everything pleased, everything was good; a truckle bed in a garret was a conch of down, and the homely fare of the peasant a feast fit for an epicure.
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
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I hate to truckle to my superiors.
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Vows that will last to the last death-ruckle, and vows that are snappd in a moment of fire;
Vastness
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Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns round ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's nae tae be, Tammas, it's nae tae be.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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The "ruckle-ruckle" of the blocks sounded at quick intervals and indicated haste; there was a suggestion of vicious determination on the part of the men who were tugging at the halyards.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
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Suddenly, the dead silence struck me: my ear missed the "ruckle," and the occasional exclamations of delight.
The Substance of a Dream
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Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated.
Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
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There were three blankets upon three raised beds---one large and old, the other two little more than truckle beds.
STARDUST
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The gentleman in front of her announced that he had come to collect a cheddar - a whole truckle and they are big!
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I suppose that's what they call a truckle-bed," he mused.
Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large
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a terrible bruckle hit in 's marrying, in the sight of the high.
Two on a Tower
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'I trust in God, not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; -- but what signifies warld's gear?'
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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Truckle is from truckle in truckle bed a low bed on wheels that may be pushed under another bed; also called a trundle bed, in reference to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.
Archive 2007-10-01
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'I trust in God not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; -- but what signifies warld's gear?'
Waverley — Complete
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His father, the reverent Pa’son St. Cleeve, made a terrible bruckle hit in ‘s marrying, in the sight of the high.
Two on a Tower
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‘I trust in God not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; — but what signifies warld’s gear?’
Waverley
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He and his friends, pursuing “a nobler destiny,” felt “no disposition to truckle to the petty usurper, who came into power against the wishes of the great men of his own party, and whose personal character was unworthy of the favor of the meanest minion that shouted in his train.”
A Country of Vast Designs
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` ` I trust in God, not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; --- but what signifies warld's gear? ''
The Waverley
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Elsewhere in the city last Saturday, a double blade cutting machine and small drill were nicked from a van parked in Ballytruckle.
