Chronicles of the Canongate: Saint Valentine's day. 2d seriesS.H. Parker, 1845 |
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... Highland races , and the daring loftiness to which some of the remoter chieftains still car- ried their pretensions . The well - authenticated fact of two powerful clans having deputed each thirty champions to fight out a quarrel of old ...
... Highland races , and the daring loftiness to which some of the remoter chieftains still car- ried their pretensions . The well - authenticated fact of two powerful clans having deputed each thirty champions to fight out a quarrel of old ...
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... Highland story furnishes many examples . In the battle of Inverkeithing , between the Royalists and Oliver Cromwell's troops , a foster - father and seven brave sons are known to have thus sacrificed themselves for Sir Hector Maclean of ...
... Highland story furnishes many examples . In the battle of Inverkeithing , between the Royalists and Oliver Cromwell's troops , a foster - father and seven brave sons are known to have thus sacrificed themselves for Sir Hector Maclean of ...
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... Highland tour exhibits ; while Perth- shire contains , amidst this romantic scenery , and in some places in connexion with it , many fertile and habitable tracts , which may vie with the richness of merry England herself . The country ...
... Highland tour exhibits ; while Perth- shire contains , amidst this romantic scenery , and in some places in connexion with it , many fertile and habitable tracts , which may vie with the richness of merry England herself . The country ...
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... Highland blood , for- sooth , is too gentle to lay a trencher or spread a napkin , and he expects to enter our ancient and honourable craft without duly waiting and tending upon his master and teacher in all matters of lawful obedience ...
... Highland blood , for- sooth , is too gentle to lay a trencher or spread a napkin , and he expects to enter our ancient and honourable craft without duly waiting and tending upon his master and teacher in all matters of lawful obedience ...
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... Highland thief who bespoke it boggled at half the sum , though it had cost me a year's labour . " " What dost thou start at , Conachar ? " said Simon , ad- dressing himself , by way of parenthesis , to the mountain disciple ; " wilt ...
... Highland thief who bespoke it boggled at half the sum , though it had cost me a year's labour . " " What dost thou start at , Conachar ? " said Simon , ad- dressing himself , by way of parenthesis , to the mountain disciple ; " wilt ...
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