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... side of Inverness . The names , as we have them in Wyntoun , are ' Clan- whewyl ' and ' Clachinya , ' the latter probably not cor- rectly transcribed . In the Scoti - Chronicon they are ' Clanquhele ' and ' Clankay . ' Hector Boece ...
... side of Inverness . The names , as we have them in Wyntoun , are ' Clan- whewyl ' and ' Clachinya , ' the latter probably not cor- rectly transcribed . In the Scoti - Chronicon they are ' Clanquhele ' and ' Clankay . ' Hector Boece ...
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... side , and , turning round to look what had become of him , saw him lying on his back with his breast pierced by an arrow . He had hardly breath , before he expired , to tell Lochiel that , seeing an enemy , a Highlander in General ...
... side , and , turning round to look what had become of him , saw him lying on his back with his breast pierced by an arrow . He had hardly breath , before he expired , to tell Lochiel that , seeing an enemy , a Highlander in General ...
Page xix
... side of the question . He therefore took his leave , mut- tering that he had always heard the Scots were a nasty people , but had no idea they carried it so far as to choose to have the floors of their palaces blood - boltered , like ...
... side of the question . He therefore took his leave , mut- tering that he had always heard the Scots were a nasty people , but had no idea they carried it so far as to choose to have the floors of their palaces blood - boltered , like ...
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... side ; But where's the Scot that would the vaunt repay , And hail the puny Tiber for the Tay ? 1 Anonymous . AMONG all the provinces in Scotland , if an intelligent stranger were asked to describe the most varied and the most beautiful ...
... side ; But where's the Scot that would the vaunt repay , And hail the puny Tiber for the Tay ? 1 Anonymous . AMONG all the provinces in Scotland , if an intelligent stranger were asked to describe the most varied and the most beautiful ...
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... side of the causeway my daugh- ter and I walk upon , so we may keep our road in peace and quietness ? ' Conachar excused himself as zealous for his master's honour , yet was scarce able to pacify the old citizen . ' What have we to do ...
... side of the causeway my daugh- ter and I walk upon , so we may keep our road in peace and quietness ? ' Conachar excused himself as zealous for his master's honour , yet was scarce able to pacify the old citizen . ' What have we to do ...
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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...