"Ugsome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... And gin that be ony argument for me haudin' oot o' your gait, it's mair argument yet for you to haud oot o' mine. I sweir to God I winna stan' this ony langer. Ye're to come hame wi' me frae this mou' o' hell and ugsome (frightful) deith. It gangs straucht to the everlastin' burnin's. Eh, man! to think nae mair ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... when it uttered something between "Jack" and "good lack." But Dennet looked in scorn at it, and said, "That's a bird tamed already. He didn't catch it. He only bought it! I would have none such! An ugsome great thieving bird!" ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... it in the ugsome hole That lies 'twixt heaven and me, I yet might hope, ere the warld were dune, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various
... to the Holy Land He's boune wi' merry din, His shouther's doss a Christ's cross, In his breist an ugsome sin. ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald |
