Gliff

'Well,' he said slowly, 'I once got a "gliff" myself in exactly the same place as I made a short cut through the churchyard one autumn evening. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

'Now,' I said, after, congratulating him on his recovery, 'if it doesn't excite you too much tell me exactly what occurred in the churchyard last night, for 'tis an absolute mystery to me, besides having given me an awful "gliff," old fellow, for I have been wondering what might have happened if I hadn't by the merest chance discovered you in your premature grave.' ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

'There's many a body that micht be the better of a bit "gliff," but it disna always last, and it's a daungerous game to play at. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

"I thought not," said he, "and yet ye have a kind of gliff* of Mr. Alexander." ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

'gliff' in the night from the apparition of 'Silkie' -- so he informed me the lady was called locally. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

“And aha, Mr. Butler,” rejoined Bartoline, upon whom, as may be well supposed, the jest was lost, and all but the sound of the words, “ye said a gliff syne it was quivis, and now I heard ye say cuivis with my ain ears, as plain as ever I heard a word at the fore-bar.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

“Gone to her room a little evil-disposed, I am informed, and laid down in her bed for a gliff,” said her grandmother; “as soon as she wakes, she shall take some drops.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

'Then aiblins,' replied the elder, stooping and knocking the ashes from his pipe against the fender, 'there micht be a bit gliff, an' this bit paper micht come in gey useful by way o 'stirrin' up his conscience the whilk, I'm thinkin ', has been growin' stiff i 'his auld age. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

'Onnyway, naethin' came o't, 'continued Ringan, imbibing thoughtfully from his glass,' but what I'm thinkin 'the noo is that aiblins anither ghaist-gliff micht do a body I ken o' a guid turn. ' ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

It was the swiftest of visions, yet I had seen enough to give me a 'gliff,' _for the eyes were not those of 'Brownie,' but of my uncle_. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

And then if ye’re dowie, I will sit wi’ you a gliff in the evening mysell, man, and help ye out wi’ your bottle; —I have drank mony a glass wi Glossin, man, that did you up, though he’s a justice now. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Bide behind it for a gliff till I say, The hour and the man are baith come! then rin in on him, take his arms, and bind him till the blood burst frae his finger-nails. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Wad ye but come out a gliff, man, or but say ye're listening? ❋ Unknown (1898)

I ken ye're within doors, and wauking, for I saw ye at the door-cheek as I cam ower the bent; will ye come out and speak just a gliff to ane that has mony thanks to gie ye? ❋ Unknown (1898)

Hobbie, hear me a gliff! '' fairly turned his back and fled. ❋ Unknown (1898)

With your permeesion we'll tak 'a look at the Operating Theatre, and overhaul the sterileezing plant, and the sanitary arrangements, and maybe, after a gliff at the kitchens, there would be a moment to spend in ganging through the warr'ds. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

Yet it soon appeared rather to proceed from a total want of delicacy than any deficiency of real kindness; for when Owen expressed himself somewhat hurt that these things should be recalled to memory in his present situation, the Glaswegian took him by the hand, and bade him ` ` Cheer up a gliff! ❋ Unknown (1887)

Lad, you gave me a gliff; pass me another stoup of wine! ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

"But gliff for gliff, {16} you put a fear on me this day, and now we are even." ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Mony's the gliff I got mysel 'in the great deep; and why the Lord should hae made yon unco water is mair than ever I could win to understand. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)