" So saying, McMurdie rode on toward the mill, and Birkendelly, after musing for some time, turned his beast's head slowly round, and began to move toward the great muckle village.

He alighted at the Queen's Head, called for some brandy and water, quite forgot what was his errand to the great muckle town that afternoon, there being nothing visible to his mental sight but lovely images, with white gauze frocks and green veils.

She had led a migratory life with her sonwho was what he called a bell-hanger, but in fact a tinker of the worst gradefor many years, and was at last returned to the muckle town in a state of great destitution.

The family of the Sandisons is extinct, the Mysterious Bride appears no more on the Eve of St. Lawrence, and the wicked people of the great muckle village have got a lesson on divine justice written to them in lines of blood.

I'm not sayin' all's richt and perfect in this world and, between you and me, would it be muckle fun to live in it if it were?

AndI'm tellin' ye're a muckle ass and no the sensible man I've thought ye if ye do not say aye.

"What sort of a fish was that, ye muckle ass?" he roared.

Mac was tryin' to do all he could, but ye canna do muckle wi' a flat bottomed boat when ye're but the ane oar, and he gied up at last.

"Ye muckle fool, youyou've ruined a brand new pair of trousies cost me fifteen and six!"

I canna say sae muckle for the twa loons!

I'd nowt to think of but the wee laddie, and there was time enow before it would be richt to be sending him offtime enow for me to earn as muckle siller as he micht need.

To bid an audience gather, gie up its plans and its pursuits, tak' an hoor or two of its timethat's a muckle thing to ask!

There's folk, I've seen them a' ma life, who put sae muckle effort into trying to get something for nowt that they ha' no time or leisure to work.

We're sae used to them, they're sae muckle a part o' oor lives, that we canna think

It's no just the siller there's to be earned frae the wee discs, though there's a muckle o' that.

And I'll tell ye straight that what he tauld me surprised meI'd had nae idea that there was sae muckle siller to be made frae such foolishness, as I thocht it a' was then.

"Ca' awa'I'm the man for ye if it's sae muckle ye're willin' tae pay me.

Ye'll mind yer own affairs, and sae muckle o' yer neighbors as he's not able to keep ye from findin' oot when ye tak' the time for a bit gossip!

These folk who ha' sae a muckle to say aboot the injustice of conditions pay few taxes.

But there's muckle that's only for our own selves to correct, and until that's done let's leave the others lie.

There's a muckle o' folk of German blood.

I've a muckle to say on that score.

I didna speak sae muckle in favor of recruiting; it was no sae needfu' in America as it had been in Britain, for in America there was conscription frae the first.

So I think maybe I'll have to be content just to be a music hall singer a' my daystill I succeed in retiring, that is, and I think that'll be soon, for I've a muckle tae do, what wi twa-three mair books I've promised myself to write.

But we've one another still, and there's muckle tae be thankfu' for.