"Nis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... da'lionadh, Tha 'n inntinn pianail bho n' ghlac thu 'm bas, 'S iad a ghnath fuidh thiorachd 's nach faigh iad sgial ort, Ach thu bhi iosal an ciste chlar Bu tu ceann na riaghailt 'us lamh na fialachd, A sheoid gun fhiaradh, gun ghiamh gun sgath, 'Sa nis bho 'n thriall thu, 's sinn lan dha d' iargan, 'S nach eil 's na criochan fear ...
— The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 • Various
... ADO'NIS, a beautiful youth beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), but mortally wounded by a boar and changed by her into a flower the colour of his blood, by ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... clause of a sentence, as, na'm biodh tus' an so, cha d' fhuair mo bhrathair b['a]s, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not [would not have] died; mur bitheamaid air deanamh moille bha sinn a nis air pilltinn air ar n-ais, if we had not lingered, we had [should have] ...
— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart
... Israeli shekel (ILS); note - NIS is the currency abbreviation; ILS is the International Organization for Standarization (ISO) code ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
