muckle

• My wife blamed my hardihood muckle, and the rashness with which I had ventured at once to places where even masons and sclaters were afraid to put foot on; yet I saw, in the interim, that she looked on me with a prouder eye--knowing herself the helpmate of one that had courageously risked his neck, and every bone in his skin, in the cause of humanity. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
• The mair I read aboot geniuses the mair clearly I see as their wy o' living alane ower muckle is ane o' the things as breaks doon their health, and makes them meeserable. —  A Window in Thrums
• Not every mickle grows into a muckle, and the supplanting of habits, the discarding of them as unsatisfactory, is as marked a phenomenon as the formation of habits So our patient allowed nothing for imperfections, experimental stages, developing tastes in her children. —  The Nervous Housewife
• Eh, but she lo'ed her weel:--Doon she drappit, and no even a moment to say her prayers That maitters na muckle--no a hair, in fac!" —  Salted with Fire
• The herrin' 'll be aye to the fore, I'm thinkin'; an' gien we getna a harbour we'll get a h'aven Judging it better to take no notice of this pretty strong expression of distrust and disappointment, Malcolm led him aside, and putting a few sovereigns in his hand, said Here, Peter, that will take you home It's ower muckle--a heap ower muckle. —  The Marquis of Lossie

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