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Page ix
... 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 ...
Page x
... clans that figured in the barbarous conflict of the Inch , has been revived since the publication of the Fair Maid of ... Clan of Mackay.1 Without pretending to say that he has settled any part of the question in the af- firmative , this ...
... clans that figured in the barbarous conflict of the Inch , has been revived since the publication of the Fair Maid of ... Clan of Mackay.1 Without pretending to say that he has settled any part of the question in the af- firmative , this ...
Page xi
... Clan Chattan and Clan Kay , and identifies the latter sept , in reference to the events of 1396 , with the Camerons . It is perhaps impossible to clear up thoroughly this controversy , little interesting in itself , at least to readers ...
... Clan Chattan and Clan Kay , and identifies the latter sept , in reference to the events of 1396 , with the Camerons . It is perhaps impossible to clear up thoroughly this controversy , little interesting in itself , at least to readers ...
Page xiv
... 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 , between the Royalists and Oliver Cromwell's troops , a ...
... 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 , between the Royalists and Oliver Cromwell's troops , a ...
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... clan before thee . ' Conachar recovered his feet with the activity of a tiger , and exclaiming , ' Never shall you live to make that boast again ! ' drew a short , sharp knife from his bosom , and , springing on Henry Smith , attempted ...
... clan before thee . ' Conachar recovered his feet with the activity of a tiger , and exclaiming , ' Never shall you live to make that boast again ! ' drew a short , sharp knife from his bosom , and , springing on Henry Smith , attempted ...
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Page 203 - 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...
Page 111 - Have a care he does not hear you say so,' said the smith. 'I tell thee, bonnet-maker, that there is more danger in yonder slight wasted anatomy than in twenty stout fellows like yourself.
Page 304 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 49 - Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date. What want these outlaws conquerors should have? But History's purchased page to call them great? A wider space, an ornamented grave? Their hopes were not less warm, their souls were full as brave.
Page 460 - What's property ? dear Swift ! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir...