How To Use Gillie In A Sentence
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An injury to Rossendale goalkeeper John Gillies proved to be the deciding factor in this match.
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But my auld een's drawing thegither -- dinna hurry yoursell, my bonny man, tak mind about the putting out the candle, and there's a horn of ale, and a glass of clow-gillie-flower water; I dinna gie ilka body that; I keep it for a pain I hae whiles in my ain stamach, and it's better for your young blood than brandy.
Old Mortality, Complete
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Bruce threw his infantry reserve into the battle, the arrows of the English archers wounded the men-at-arms of their own side, and the remnants of the leading line were tired and disheartened when the final impetus to their rout was given by the historic charge of the "gillies," some thousands of Scottish camp-followers who suddenly emerged from the woods, blowing horns, waving such weapons as they possessed, and holding aloft [v. 03 p. 0355] improvised banners.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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She speaks with warmth of Maxwell, Redpath and Gillies and there's a keen eye too kept on contemporary talents.
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The gillie's lodge to the east of the original manor consists of a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms and bathroom.
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Generally Brill focuses his rock-steady handheld camera on the faces of the doctors, nurses and Gillies himself.
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Here, on the 23d of June, 1314, was posted the Scottish army, awaiting the coming of the foe, the camp-followers, cart-drivers, and other useless material of the army being sent back behind a hill, -- afterwards known as the gillies 'or servants' hill, -- that they might be out of the way.
Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
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St Mirren caretaker manager John Coughlin was mightily relieved that Ricky Gillies was deemed fit to play.
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Here is a link to where I purchased my bow huntin 'gillie, for anyone interested.
Four Ways to Customize Your Gillie Suit For Bowhunting
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The gillie did not take up the gaff now, and my hopes were dashed, for it meant that he had recognised a kelt, which must be tailed.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
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Clay said it ... my gillies would get caught up in this thing.
Useful? You Bet Your R.A.S.S.
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There's some really awesome camo patterns out there but when it comes to really erasing the human outline a gillie is the way to go.
Four Ways to Customize Your Gillie Suit For Bowhunting
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The committee decided not to take evidence from the Crofting Counties Fishing Rights Group, which represents some 500 gillies, river bailiffs and other river workers in the Highlands.
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She calls the head gillie on her mobile phone and tells him it is a broken crankshaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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The young gillie had recovered his sgian-dhu from where it had been thrown by Kenneth, and he ran off with alacrity, delighted with his task; while baskets and maunds were brought, and amidst plenty of hearty laughter the potatoes were gathered up, the women entering into the task heart and soul.
Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai
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A ‘gillie’, by the by, was originally an attendant on a Highland chief, but by the nineteenth century was a sportsman's attendant.
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Margaret Gillies currently has a team of 20 volunteers working for her.
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I do think that such a critter, a smart critter in tune with it's environment and born with something a lot like a gillie suit for hide would be able to easily avoid humans if it desired not to meet them.
Big Foot?
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Philadelphia Phillies 'baseball team manager Charlie Manuel, on how tenacious outfield prospect Tyson Gillies pursues (or "shags", in American-speak) flyballs hit during batting practice.
BBC - Ouch
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The narrative is set in 18th century Scotland with "deadly claymores flashing above plaid and tartan," and "clan-cries of the gillies, charging with their chiefs.
“Living hand to mouth. . .”
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Margaret had told Miss Gillies that she was' frustrating her ambition '.
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My gillie did once report seeing some character walking along a shallow burn in wellington boots, waving a couple of coat hangers.
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The building's Victorian detailing was evidence of the considerable profits Gillies had made from the factory he erected in 1867, providing nets for the booming herring industry.
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As Donald Gillies (1972, 6 “ 7) emphasizes, if we accept the most extreme kind of operationalism, there is no point in asking whether a measurement method is valid; if the measurement method defines the concept and there is nothing more to the meaning of the concept, the measurement method is automatically valid, as a matter of convention or even tautology.
Operationalism
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Gillies has served on the boards of more than 35 public and not-for-profit organizations.
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Ian Gillies, chairman of York Taxi Association, said new drivers and operators would shoulder the largest chunk of the new costs.
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But the air she played was not the air of the song she called the 'Welsh dukkerin' gillie 'which I had heard by Beddgelert.
Aylwin
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Gillie's voice floated disembodiedly across the hall.
Bonecrack
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Borrow's life, for, soon after, when he first came among gypsy tents, and saw the long-haired woman with skin dark and swarthy like that of a toad, and a particularly evil expression, and when her husband threatened to baste the intruder with a ladle, the boy broke forth into what in Romany would be called a "gillie," or ditty, ending --
Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913
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Gillies saw the plastic surgeon as a sculptor.
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Oh I mixed the last names simpson menzies and imbert, …but Jutta did know only peters last name not gillies and she thought peter and gilli were married, when she sent the scholar away who came for a private lessons with gilli.
The English Teaching Theatre – how it nearly never started… « Ken Wilson's Blog
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Mr Gillies seems to be of the opinion it is OK to hunt foxes as they themselves kill for enjoyment (like many other animals do).
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But if these combined to pull out the winner, the real stars of the show were the ageless Tommy Turner, mopping up languidly at the back, and Ricky Gillies and Hugh Murray dominating in midfield.
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The New Zealand-born surgeon Harold Gillies established the first specialized plastic-surgery unit at the Queen's Hospital in Sidcup, where he carried out more than 11,000 maxillofacial reconstructions after 1917.
When the Killing Stopped
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Gerta and Gillie ran down the sidewalk with some other children in a game of hide - and - seek.
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The class of human beings known as caddies are the offspring of golf, and have peculiar traits which distinguish them from the professional cricketer, the waterman, the keeper, the gillie, and all other professionals.
Lost Leaders
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The Irish/Scottish gillies were a piece of leather cut in such a way that it drew up around your foot.
A Brief History of the Shoe « Colleen Anderson
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The museum is wheelchair accessible and allows people of all ages and abilities to participate in what Gillies assures is an informative, educational and fun experience.
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You an me, the man, the brither - me an you, the Gillie Mor copyright Hamish Henderson
Gillie Mor
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The English ran ninety miles from Bannockburn, seared by the "gillies" and the baggage-wagons.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
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She calls the head gillie on her mobile phone and tells him it is a broken crankshaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let us back to the camp, and send our gillies for the venison.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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In maybe three more minutes it would have been netted by the gillie, knocked on the head, to be displayed later on outside the hotel dining room.
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In 1922 eight people, including guests and gillies, died from botulism poisoning after eating an infected duck pâté.
Times, Sunday Times
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He observed that they occasionally watched him with a sharp eye, as if they were jealous of some effort to escape; and once, as he lingered behind at crossing a brook, one of the gillies began to blow the match of his piece, giving him to understand that he would run some risk in case of an attempt to part company.
A Legend of Montrose
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“The Princess of Broadswords and Targets, I say,” answered his companion; “for the Lady of Montrose herself could not be more courteously waited upon; she has four Highland maidens, and as many bare-legged gillies, to wait upon her orders.”
A Legend of Montrose
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Hey dummies, deer and elk can't tell the difference between breakup blaze orange-martian electric green and a olive drab n dirt or mossy oak gillie suit.
Woolrich Chic
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From this gillie I learned, in general, that the banishment of the dault an neigh dheil, or foster child of the white doe, was again brought under consideration of the tribe.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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In his excellent and thought-provoking address about humanities and philanthropy (Australian Book Review, June), Professor Malcolm Gillies directs our attention to the concluding poem (Carmen xxx) in Book III of the Odes of Horace in the verse translation by John Conington, specifically to the phrase “… usque ego postera/Crescam laude recens …,” of which the fragment “postera crescam laude” has since 1854 served as the motto of my alma mater, the University of Melbourne.
Postera crescam laude
