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Scott Walter - Chronicles Of The Canongate
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... little good, they did as little ill. They lifted their rents and spent them, called in their kain and eat them; gaed to the kirk of a Sunday, bowed civilly if folk took aff their bannets as they gaed by, and lookit as black as sin at them that keepit ...
Mandeville John - The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville
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... little thence; and it is a fair city and a good and mickle folk therein. And without that city toward the south is a kirk of our Lady, where our Lord shewed him to her in three clouds, the which betokened the Trinity. And a little thence is another city, ...
Stevenson Robert Louis - The Letters 1
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... little tragedy in funnily bad rhyme, one verse of which sticks in my memory: 'We died, their furious rage to stay, Near to the kirk of Iron-gray.We then fetched a long compass round about through Holywood Kirk and Lincluden ruins to Dumfries. But the walk came sadly to ...
Mandeville John - The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville
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... thence is another city, that men call Dispolis, but it hight some time Lidda, a fair city and a well inhabited: there is a kirk of Saint George, where he was headed. From thence men go to the castle of Emmaus, and so to the Mount Joy; there may pilgrims ...
Galt John - The Ayrshire Legatees
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... no fairlies, except going in a coach from one part of the toun to another; but the Doctor and me was at the he-kirk of Saint Paul''s for a purpose that I need not tell you, as it was adoing with the right hand what the left should not ...
Scott Walter - A Legend Of Montrose
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... families of Drummond and Murray divided Perthshire. The former, being the most numerous and powerful, cooped up eight score of the Murrays in the kirk of Monivaird, and set fire to it. The wives and the children of the ill-fated men, who had also found shelter in the church, ...
Galt John - The Annals Of The Parish
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... last Sabbath of the year 1810, I preached my last sermon, and it was a moving discourse. There were few dry eyes in the kirk that day; for I had been with the aged from the beginning--the young considered me as their natural pastor--and my bidding them all ...
Galt John - The Annals Of The Parish
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... misled; and having said so, nothing could exceed their mortification on Monday, when they heard (for they were of those who had deserted the kirk) that I had given by the precentor notice to every widow in the parish that was in need, to come to the manse and she ...
Galt John - The Annals Of The Parish
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... concluding this annal, that Mrs Malcolm herself was this winter brought to death''s door by a terrible host that came on her in the kirk, by taking a kittling in her throat. It was a terrification to hear her sometimes; but she got the better of it in the spring, ...
Galt John - The Annals Of The Parish
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... omen of the dule that ensued, was in a sacrilegious theft that a daft woman, Jenny Gaffaw, and her idiot daughter, did in the kirk, by tearing off and stealing the green serge lining of my lord''s pew, to make, as they said, a hap for their shoulders in the ...
Stevenson Robert Louis - The Letters 1
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... and down the ice, a lit circle travelling along with them over the snow. A gigantic moon rose, meanwhile, over the trees and the kirk on the promontory, among perturbed and vacillating clouds. The walk home was very solemn and strange. Once, through a broken gorge, we had a glimpse ...

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