mickle

• "Many a little makes a mickle," Zhemlyanskiy said. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
• I throw the wee stools o'er the mickle, While round the fire the giglets keckle To see me loup; An', raving mad, I wish a heckle Were i' their doup When fevers burn, or ague freezes, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeezes, Our neebors sympathize to ease us Wi' pitying moan; But thee!--thou hell o' a' diseases They mock our groan Of a' the num'rous human dools, Ill-hairsts, daft bargains, cutty-stools, Or worthy frien's laid i' the mools Sad sight to see! —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• Atweel, my cousin tauld me they'd a rare call for siccan wood, and being vara costly, they'd hit o' late in the trade on a new way o' making furniture, as did nae come to sae mickle--they ca' it veneer Oh yes, I know," said I Ay, ye'll hae seen it i' London toun, I daur say? —  Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow
• Barbara Napier deposed that 'the devil wess with them in likeness of ane black man the devil start up in the pulpit, like a mickle blak man, with ane black beard sticking out like ane goat's beard, clad in ane blak tatie [tattered] gown and ane ewill favoured scull bonnet on his heid; hauing ane black book in his hand'. —  The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
• '[106] Another description of the same event shows that 'the Devil start up in the pulpit, like a mickle black man clad in a black tatie gown; and an evil-favoured scull-bonnet on his head'. —  The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology

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