Crossword-Solution: YILL 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Lockhard, if they offer ye a drink o’ yill, or a cup o’ wine, or a glass o’ brandy, ye’ll be a wise man to take it, in case the thunner should hae soured ours at the castle, whilk is ower muckle to be dreaded.” He then permitted Lockhard to depart; and with foot heavy as lead, and yet far lighter than his heart, stepped on through the unequal street of the straggling village, meditating on whom he ought to make his first attack.

But ne’er mind, cummer! we hae this dollar of the Master’s, and we’ll send doun for bread and for yill, and tobacco, and a drap brandy to burn, and a wee pickle saft sugar; and be there deil, or nae deil, lass, we’ll hae a merry night o’t.” Here her leathern chops uttered a sort of cackling, ghastly laugh, resembling, to a certain degree, the cry of the screech-owl.

Surely that man will make me dislike him at last! Sine as ye brew, my maiden fair, Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill.

The lady came down the stair, wringing her hands: “He has slain the Earl o Murray, the flower o Scotland.” But Huntly lap on his horse, rade to the King: “Ye’re welcome hame, Huntly, and whare hae ye been? “Where hae ye been? and how hae ye sped?” “I’ve killed the Earl o Murray dead in his bed.” “Foul fa you, Huntly! and why did ye so? You might have taen the Earl o Murray, and saved his life too.” “Her bread it’s to bake, her yill is to brew; My sister’s a widow, and sair do I rue.

Geddes, hastily; ‘do you know anything of Darsie Latimer?’ ‘Maybe I do, and maybe I do not,’ answered Peter; ‘I am no free to answer every body’s interrogatory, unless it is put judicially, and by form of law--specially where folk think so much of a caup of sour yill, or a thimblefu’ of brandy.