Waverley Novels ...: The fair maid of PerthBlack, 1853 |
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... clans having deputed each thirty champions to fight out a quarrel of old standing , in presence of King Robert III . , his brother the Duke of Albany , and the whole court of Scotland , at Perth , in the year of grace 1396 , seemed to ...
... clans having deputed each thirty champions to fight out a quarrel of old standing , in presence of King Robert III . , his brother the Duke of Albany , and the whole court of Scotland , at Perth , in the year of grace 1396 , seemed to ...
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... clan to the aid of the royal banner against the Lord of the Isles . This historian is of opinion that the Clan Quhele of Wyntoun were the Camerons , who appear to have about that period been often designated as Macewans , and to have ...
... clan to the aid of the royal banner against the Lord of the Isles . This historian is of opinion that the Clan Quhele of Wyntoun were the Camerons , who appear to have about that period been often designated as Macewans , and to have ...
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... Clan Lochiel ? The reader may not be displeased to have Wyntoun's original rhymes : " A thousand and thre hunder yere , Nynty and sex to mak all clere- Of thre - score wyld Scottis men , Thretty agane thretty then , In Felny bolnit of ...
... Clan Lochiel ? The reader may not be displeased to have Wyntoun's original rhymes : " A thousand and thre hunder yere , Nynty and sex to mak all clere- Of thre - score wyld Scottis men , Thretty agane thretty then , In Felny bolnit of ...
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... is heightened with many florid additions by Boece and Leslie , and the contending savages in Buchanan utter speeches after the most approved pattern of Livy . The devotion of the young Chief of Clan Quhele's foster 6 PREFACE .
... is heightened with many florid additions by Boece and Leslie , and the contending savages in Buchanan utter speeches after the most approved pattern of Livy . The devotion of the young Chief of Clan Quhele's foster 6 PREFACE .
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Walter Scott. The devotion of the young Chief of Clan Quhele's foster - father and foster - brethren , in the novel , is a trait of clannish fidelity , of which Highland story furnishes many examples . In the battle of Inverkeithing ...
Walter Scott. The devotion of the young Chief of Clan Quhele's foster - father and foster - brethren , in the novel , is a trait of clannish fidelity , of which Highland story furnishes many examples . In the battle of Inverkeithing ...
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answered armourer arms Bailie Craigdallie betwixt blood Bonnet-maker Bonthron brother burgh burghers called Carthusian Castle Catharine Glover Church citizens Clan Chattan Clan Quhele combat Conachar daughter door Douglas Duke of Albany Duke of Rothsay Dwining Eachin Earl Earl of Douglas Earl of March Eviot eyes Fair City Fair Maid fear feud follow glee-maiden Grace hand hath hauberk hear heard heart Heaven Henbane Henry Gow Henry Smith Highland honest honour Kinfauns knight liege Loch Tay look lord Lord of Douglas Louise MacIan Maid of Perth maiden matter monk neighbour never noble Oliver Proudfute Palm Sunday Perth poor Prince Prince of Scotland Provost Ramorny's replied royal Saint Scotland seemed Simon Glover Sir John Ramorny Sir Patrick Charteris speak spoke sword tell thee thou art thou hast thought Torquil voice woman word wounded yonder
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Page 132 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 80 - Isabel, I suppose you mean," answered the Smith. "Ay — Isabel or Jezabel — all the same, you know. But here comes Bailie Craigdallie at last, with that poor, creeping, cowardly creature the Pottingar.