Amaist

Thae are bonny writer words — amaist like the language ❋ Unknown (2005)

Our folk had tirled the dead dragoons as bare as bawbees before we were loose amaist. — ❋ Unknown (2004)

Gars [16] auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

"But I needna ask the question, sin 'yer looks tell ye're amaist weel". ❋ Mrs. William T. Savage (N/A)

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new: *** ❋ Unknown (N/A)

They learned to "gar old clo'es amaist as weel as new." ❋ Eugenia Dunlap Potts (N/A)

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; [322-17] ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

QUOTATION: Gars auld claes look amaist as weel ’s the new. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Robert Burns. (1759–1796) (continued) 4734Gars auld claes look amaist as weel ’s the new. ❋ Unknown (1919)

"'Tis an unco thing," the constable declared, "but that wad be the word was amaist at my tongue's tip." ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; [Makes old clothes] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

And they say that you are amaist as weel as ever -- but to me you look twelve years older! ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

Characters in books should either be kings, and princes, and nobles, and on a level with them, like heroes; or peasants, shepherds, farmers, and the like, includin 'a' orders amaist o 'our ain working population. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)

I thought it best to slip out quietly though, in case she should mislippen something of what we're gaun to do --- we maunna vex her at nae rate --- it was amaist the last word my father said to me on his deathbed. '' ❋ Unknown (1898)

` ` Troth, for that matter, she would be as sair vexed amaist for you as for me. ❋ Unknown (1898)

` ` I am amaist persuaded it's the ghaist of a stane-mason --- see siccan band-stanes as he's laid! ❋ Unknown (1898)

D'ye think I wad hae comed out at twal o'clock at night, and amaist broken the Lord's day, just to tell a fa'en man ❋ Unknown (1887)

` ` It wadna hae vexed him half sae muckle to hae been cheated out o 'what might amaist be said to be won with the peril o' his craig, had it happened amang the Inglishers; but it was an unco thing to see hawks pike out hawks 'e'en, or ae kindly Scot cheat anither. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Deacon, and ending, your loving kinsman to command, --- they are amaist a 'about borrowed siller, sae the gude deacon, that's dead and gane, keepit them as documents and evidents --- He was ❋ Unknown (1887)