Legends of the braes o' Mar [by J. Grant].1861 - 80 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... arrival , and therefore concealed themselves among the camp - followers in the rear . The Scots occupied the then wooded ... arrived at the top of a hill overlooking the plain . Here the Danish general had perched himself to watch the ...
... arrival , and therefore concealed themselves among the camp - followers in the rear . The Scots occupied the then wooded ... arrived at the top of a hill overlooking the plain . Here the Danish general had perched himself to watch the ...
Pagina 8
... arrived at his castle of Ceann Drochaide , in Castletown of Braemar , where he afterwards gene- rally put up during the hunting season . The Couttses , though they had not the honour to please his gracious majesty , continued to thrive ...
... arrived at his castle of Ceann Drochaide , in Castletown of Braemar , where he afterwards gene- rally put up during the hunting season . The Couttses , though they had not the honour to please his gracious majesty , continued to thrive ...
Pagina 10
... Arrived on the nearer bank , the young wife , with her child in her arms , was put across on horseback , and placed on Tom Ghainmheine . MacLeod must pierce with an arrow an apple placed on the head of his son in his wife's arms . The ...
... Arrived on the nearer bank , the young wife , with her child in her arms , was put across on horseback , and placed on Tom Ghainmheine . MacLeod must pierce with an arrow an apple placed on the head of his son in his wife's arms . The ...
Pagina 14
... arriving , did not discover the intruder , nor chew him down into " crowdie " for her legitimate offspring , as a sensible affectionate mother ought to have done . In a mistake , I will hope , she used him as one of the family , allowed ...
... arriving , did not discover the intruder , nor chew him down into " crowdie " for her legitimate offspring , as a sensible affectionate mother ought to have done . In a mistake , I will hope , she used him as one of the family , allowed ...
Pagina 17
... arrived at Kildrummy - yetts . The " bauld porter " refused admittance to the wild troupe , and a loud altercation arose . Mar , who was just sitting down to dine , " looked owre his castle wa ' ; Ome- ron's eye caught a glimpse of his ...
... arrived at Kildrummy - yetts . The " bauld porter " refused admittance to the wild troupe , and a loud altercation arose . Mar , who was just sitting down to dine , " looked owre his castle wa ' ; Ome- ron's eye caught a glimpse of his ...
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Aberdeen Abergeldie Aboyne Alastair Allancuaich arms Auchindryne Baron Baron Reid Beum Scaith Black Colonel Blellack Brachlie Brackley Braemar Braes of Mar brave brother Cam-Ruadh castle Castletown Cattenach Charles chief clan Cleansers Cluny Coldrach cried Cromar Dalmore daughter death dirk Donald Farquharson door Dubh Earl Earl of Fife Earl of Mar Ephiteach exclaimed eyes father fell Finlay followed Forbes friends Gairn gallant gentlemen Gillespie Glen Cluny Glen Isla Glen Muick Glen Shee Glenshee Gordon ha'e hand head heart hero Highland hills honour horse Huntly Inver Invercauld Inverey James John Kern killed lads lady laird Lamont lands Lochaber look Lord M'Intosh M'Kenzie MacRobaidh Mhoir Malcolm marched married Monaltrie Montrose morning never night party passed quoth replied returned round Seumas side sons sword Tarland tell thought told took Tullich turned wife William young
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Pagina 102 - Then, after we had staid there three hours, or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which, being followed close by the...
Pagina 101 - I found many of them armed for the hunting. As for their attire, any man, of what degree soever, that comes amongst them, must not disdain to wear it, for if they do...
Pagina 102 - The manner of the hunting is this: five or six hundred men do rise early in the morning, and they do disperse themselves divers ways, and seven, eight, or ten miles...
Pagina 101 - Their habit is shoes with but one sole apiece ; stockings (which they call short hose) made of a warm stuff of divers colours, which they call tartan : as for breeches, many of them, nor their forefathers never wore any, but a jerkin of the same stuff that their hose is of, their garters being bands or wreaths of hay or straw, with a plaid about their shoulders, which is a mantle of divers colours, of much finer and lighter stuff than their hose, with blue flat caps on their heads, a handkerchief...
Pagina 40 - It fell about the Martinmas, When the wind blew shrill and cauld, Said Edom o' Gordon to his men,
Pagina 102 - Thus, the first day, we travelled eight miles, where there were small cottages, built on purpose to lodge in, which they call Lonquhards.
Pagina 102 - Tinkhell, are chased down into the valley where we lay ; then all the valley on each side being waylaid with a hundred couple of strong Irish greyhounds, they are let loose as occasion serves upon the herd of deer, that with dogs, guns, arrows, dirks, and daggers, in the space of two hours, fourscore fat deer were slain...
Pagina 41 - I a' my fee, For ae blast o' the western wind, To blaw the reek frae thee." O then bespake her daughter dear, — She was baith jimp and sma': "O row' me in a pair o' sheets, And tow me owre the wa'!
Pagina 39 - ... of the place where they were to meet. John Gordon, Lord of Glenluce and Longormes, son to Alexander Gordon, Bishop of Galloway, Lord of the Bedchamber to the King of France, getting instantly notice of this, immediately acquainted the king, who forthwith...
Pagina 40 - As fast as she could drie *, To see if, by her fair speeches, She could with him agree. As...