gilly
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I am the gilly of Christ, The mate of Mary’s Son; I run the roads at seeding time, And when the harvest’s done.
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
"VOTO A DIOS! as the Spaniard says," exclaimed the Major, "and some beggarly gilly may get it while I stand prating here!"
From A Legend of Montrose by Scott, Walter, Sir
Then he looked at the garden and saw that it was full of jessamine and gilly flowers and violets and roses and orange blossoms and all manner sweet-scented blooms and herbs.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
"Don't pull, madam," shouted the gilly, and it was well he did, for I was just on the point of giving an awful jerk to get the fish loose from Jone.
From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Stockton, Frank Richard
Close to one plate a bunch of stocks and gilly flowers reposed on the dirty tablecloth, as though dropped and forgotten by the God of Love.
From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John
The child of Imelda Marcos and Dr. Seuss would collect mukluks, galoshes and gillies and high-tops, and also some moccasins, chukkas and flip-flops.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017
George VI rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tenants, servants, and "gillies" on the Balmoral, Agergeldie and Birknall estates were bidden by their Britannic Majesties to a ball.
From Time Magazine Archive
Knowing how dangerous mumps can be to a full grown male, Her Majesty ordered all mumpsful Scottish gillies tucked promptly into bed.
From Time Magazine Archive
At length he ordered one of his gillies to acquaint the wondrous inmate that Ewan Macpherson wished to hold some converse with him.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Leighton, Alexander
His entire demeanour said, "To think that I should have carried the gaff, and gillied good salmon fishermen for years, and be degraded into this mean tomfoolery."
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William
