dreich

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It's a little dreich, but it will be as well that ye should ken Well," says Dan, "when ye were at the College in the toon and learning yer tasks, there was a lass came to stop at Scaurdale, a niece she was to the Laird there (a sister's wean, I am thinking), very prim and bonny she was, and fu' o' nonsensical book-lore.

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  • We also headed up to the sungate. which was good to see as when I was here last time with Fiona and Jane it was really dreich weather and we could hardly see 5 meters! —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • We are in a church in Glasgow's south side, and though the hilarity might seem slightly incongruous to the austerity of our surroundings, the humour lifts the gloom of the dreich Scottish end of a summer's day.
  • It's a little dreich, but it will be as well that ye should ken Well," says Dan, "when ye were at the College in the toon and learning yer tasks, there was a lass came to stop at Scaurdale, a niece she was to the Laird there (a sister's wean, I am thinking), very prim and bonny she was, and fu' o' nonsensical book-lore. —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • Ye ken the place, a lang dreich shore wi 'the wind swirlin' and bitin 'to the bane, and the broun Gled water choked wi' —  The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
  • It's a little dreich, but it will be as well that ye should ken. " —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran
 

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