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Gley   Listen
verb
Gley  v. i.  To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. (Scot.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gley" Quotes from Famous Books



... their friends within the town—all live and move and look longingly towards the West, as so many others must have done these forty and odd years past. The plot, what there is of it, concerns the clandestine love of Claire, the petted younger daughter of the Gley house, for an officer in the conqueror's host, whom she had met during a visit to Strasburg. Claire marries her Kurt, a shady worthless knave, and, as the book ends with the outbreak of war, is ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 • Various

... such an evening as this that Hayden had planned; but plans, as immemorial experience has taught us, but never quite convinced us, "gang aft a-gley," and Robert's were no exception to the rule. Between him and the open page before him, he saw continually the face of Marcia Oldham. The sweet, wistful, violet eyes gazed earnestly at him, the delicately ...
— The Silver Butterfly • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow



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