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...rraced gardens she looks far and wide on the sea and broad champaigns. To the east you may catch at sunset the spark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi....

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...he east you may catch at sunset the spark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the car... ..., looking out upon the summer landscape sloping far below them towards the firth, and the field-paths where they had wandered hand in hand; or, as age... ...er florid structures in the dust. And as long as we have the hills and the Firth, we have a famous heritage to leave our children. Our windows, at no ... ...s at anchor; the sun picks out the white pharos upon Inchkeith Island; the Firth extends on either hand from the Ferry to the May; the towns of Fifesh... ...fore me on the page, I am persuaded that a big wind comes tearing over the Firth from Burntisland and the northern hills; I think I can hear it howl i... ... and there, if there be wind, a cloud of blowing snow upon a shoulder. The Firth seems a leaden creek, that a man might almost jump across, between we... ...rawl slowly abroad upon the railway lines; little ships are tacking in the Firth; the shadow of a mountainous cloud, as large as a par- ish, travels b...

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... extremely influential. Winston Churchill later credited it as a major reason that the Admiralty decided to establish naval bases at Invergordon, the Firth of Forth and Scapa Flow. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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..., mainly hot celebrity types, but they didn’t make me go nutso. Maybe Colin Firth did a little, but five thousand plus hits on his MySpace page did...

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...ob- tained through the transference of recitation divisions. Tiffany & Co. Firth Avrnut and a7th St., Ntw York Men's Gold Watches New Model 18 Karat G... ...he eligibility rules in general, forbidding the receiving of Tiffany & Co. Firth Avenue and 37(li St., New Tork Blue Book The TiflPany & Co. Blue Book... ...whom he has left onr sincerest sym- pathy, and be it further Tiffany & Co. Firth Avenue and 97lh St..Mm York Blue Book The Tiffany & Co. Blue Book, 19...

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...and otherwhere are half as many again.” Then bade King Helgi turn into the firth, called Varin’s firth, and they did so: but now there fell on them so... ...in his arms and fared away to the wood, and went till he came to a certain firth; and then he saw a man in a little boat; and that man asked if he wou... ...in a little boat; and that man asked if he would be wafted by him over the firth, and he said yes thereto; but so little was the boat, that they might... ...t at once, so the corpse was first laid therein, while Sigmund went by the firth-side. But therewith the boat and the man therein van- ished away from... ...e was fain to end her life: but nowise might she drown. She drave over the firths to the land of King Jonakr, and he wedded her, and their sons were S...

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...he mind – when I beheld that old, gray, castled city, high throned above the firth, with the flag of Britain flying, and the red-coat sentry pacing ov... ...ob- served by the curious on the map, occupying a tongue of land between the firths of Forth and T ay. It may be continu- ally seen from many parts of... ...r subarctic lati- tude, we came down upon the shores of the roaring Pentland Firth, that grave of mariners; on one hand, the cliffs of Dunnet Head ran... ...end, out of a northern window, he would see day beginning to whiten over the Firth, give up the ascent, turn to descend, and in a breath be back again...

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...tiny; and while you, are looking from mountain peaks, at distant lakes and firths, I am, de apicibus juris, consoling myself with vi- sions of crimson... ...y I cared not for, I turned my steps towards the sea, or rather the Solway Firth which here separates the two sister kingdoms, and which lay at about ... ...found a Dulcinea in the inhabitant of a fisherman’ s cottage on the Solway Firth, thou shalt be disappointed; for, having said she seemed very pretty,... ...arts of the landscape, and especially upon the broad mirror of the distant Firth of Solway. I advanced on the scene with the light step of a liberated... ...menced. The moon shone broad and bright upon the placid face of the Solway Firth, and showed a slight ripple upon the stakes, the tops of which were j... ... of the riot which had been commit- ted on the Scottish side of the Solway Firth, explained how I came to be placed in my present situation, and reque... ...eave him sense to steer by.’ ‘Nanty Ewart could steer through the Pentland Firth though he were as drunk as the Baltic Ocean,’ said Robin Hastie; and ... ...ed on the scene around, as the little vessel, having borne down the Solway Firth, was beginning, with a favourable northerly breeze, to bear away to t... ...he opposite shore from which she had departed, the brig was going down the Firth, and apparently steering into the Irish Sea. He called to Nanty Ewart...

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..., Nor wilt thou snare him in the white ravine, Nor find him dropt upon the firths of ice, That huddling slant in furrow-cloven falls 66 The Princess ...

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...here was a flag upon the castle, and ships moving or lying anchored in the firth; both of which, for as far away as they were, I could distinguish cle... ...o-day will be the last occasion, as the wind will serve us well out of the firth. I will not seek to deny that I have had crosses with your doer,* Mr.... ...fe in the inland hills, and just two days before had my first sight of the firth lying like a blue floor, and the sailed ships moving on the face of i... ...ame to the top of the hill, and looked down on the Ferry and the Hope. The Firth of Forth (as is very well known) narrows at this point to the width o... ...ith little bladders that crackled between my fin- gers. Even so far up the firth, the smell of the sea-water was exceedingly salt and stirring; the Co... ...nd Shetland Islands, having avoided the dangerous currents of the Pentland Firth. For my part, who had been so long shut in the dark and knew nothing ... ...he. “If we cannae pass the river, we’ll have to see what we can do for the firth.” “There are fords upon the river, and none upon the firth,” said I. ... ...an all that: if ye pass a bridge, it can tell no tales; but if we pass the firth, there’s the boat on the wrong side — somebody must have 166 Kidnapp...

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..., and the morning was in sight— I cried, but in strange places, steppe and firth I have not seen, through alien grief and mirth; And never shall one ...

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...es of rivers as if from postern gates, from passage-ways, inlets, straits, firths, the garrison of the Isle and the crews of the ships going and retur...

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...e Picts were never extermi- nated, and form to this day a large proportion of the folk of Scotland: occupying the eastern and the central parts, from ...

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... of Leit Hill, and did not my father have his revenge on his son by Solway Firth? Yea, and now not a Graeme can meet a Musgrave but they come to blows... ... and the good knight Sir Lancelot’s, we might go nigher to the sea and the firth, where the Selby clan have no call, being at deadly feud with the Rid...

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... a consequence it had long after. There was a warship at this time stationed in the Firth, the Seahorse, Captain Palliser. It chanced she was cruising... ...liverance of our maroons might be duly seen to the next day. Thence we kept away up Firth. The breeze, which was then so spirited, swiftly de- clined,...

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...happy until I found myself aboard of a Leith smack, and, standing down the Firth with a fair wind, might snap my fingers at the retreating outline of ... ...r Malcolm, being the first of our Scottish princes quha removit across the Firth of Forth, did reside and oc- cupy ane palace at Edinburgh, and had th...

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...f famous spots and things, Domestic, or the boast of foreign realms: 270 The Firth of Forth, and Edinburgh, throned On crags, fit empress of that mount...

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...to the south. The sea was bitten all over with white; little ships, tacking up and down the Firth, lay over at different angles in the wind. On Shante...

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... neighbours. Little heard, I say; but indeed it 9 Robert Louis Stevenson was a case of little spoken. He was known among the salmon fishers in the fi...

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...ather round the King. When, on his way to Perth, he was about to cross the Firth of Forth, the wild figure of a Highland woman appeared at his bridle ...

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...nstinctively lowered my voice when I addressed her. She admitted she had rooms to let—even showed them to us—a sitting-room and bedroom in a suite, co...

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... it will take long. Now, imagine if I have been homesick for Barrahead and Island Glass, and 53 V ailima Letters Kirkwall, and Cape Wrath, and the We...

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...t incomparable pros- pect of the ground between Edinburgh and the sea; the Firth of Forth, with its islands; the embayment which is termi- nated by th...

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...s fill fast, And the void river beds swell thunderously, And all the panting firths of Ocean boil. The Sire himself in midnight of the clouds Wields w... ... their stalls. No sooner are the winds at point to rise, Than either Ocean’s firths begin to toss And swell, and a dry crackling sound is heard Upon t...

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..., Stenesone, and Stewinsoune, spread across Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Forth to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Four times at least it o... ...g the construction of the lighthouse on the isle of Little Cumbrae, in the Firth of Clyde. The change of aim seems to have caused or been accompanied ... ...ndee. From the door of the tent you command the most beautiful view of the Firth, both up and down, to a great extent. At night all was serene and sti... ...otland was lighted at a single point – the Isle of May, in the jaws of the Firth of Forth, where, on a tower already a hundred and fifty years old, an... ...amid iron-bound coasts, among tide-races, the whirl- pools of the Pentland Firth, flocks of islands, flocks of reefs, many of them uncharted. The aid ... ...st days of childhood. On a September night, the Regent lay in the Pentland Firth in a fog and a violent and windless swell. It was still dark, when th... ...ent fetched way against the swell, and clawed off shore into the turbulent firth. The purpose of these voyages was to effect a landing on (1) This is ... ...e en- trance to the only harbour of refuge between the Downs and the Moray Firth, it breathed abroad along the whole coast an atmo- sphere of terror a... ...ated that from the direction of the wind being N.E., she would sail up the Firth of Forth to Leith Roads. But if this should appear doubtful, after pa...

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...when they retired to the Hebrides to harry there, and right in to the Scotch firths. Thrand and Onund went out against them and learned that they had ...

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... the surging sea, with a whitening south wind wan, Through the foam of the firth, man makes his perilous way; And the eldest of deities Earth that kno...

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...anton and Cramond. This has always been with me a very favourite walk. The Firth closes gradually together before you, the coast runs in a series of t... ... a clean cold wind that smelt a little of the sea, though it came down the Firth, and the sunset had a certain eclat and warmth. Perhaps if I could ge...

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...the Three Great Captains lay; And one was Admiral of the North from Solway Firth to Skye, And one was Lord of the Wessex coast and all the lands there...

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...n’s bay, Others pass the straits of Dover, others enter the Wash, others the firth of Solway, others round cape Clear, others the Land’s End, Others t...