gilly

Example Sentences

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Follow the gilly Beyond to the west: He leads where the Christ lies On Mary’s white breast.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

As I came over the grey, grey hills And over the grey, grey water, I saw the gilly leading on, And the white Christ following after.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

You made all my people think you were a straight guy; you played the role of a gilly kid to the queen's taste.

From Watch Yourself Go By by Warden, Ben W.

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

The gilly said that perhaps I had too much line out, and so he took the rod and wound up a good deal of the line.

From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Stockton, Frank Richard