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...d (usually) knew (in way of affection). 585. Though all unasked, etc. “The Highlanders, who car- ried hospitality to a punctilious excess, are said to... ... dun). 622. A harp unseen. Scott has the following note here: “‘“They [the Highlanders] delight much in musicke, but chiefly in harps and clairschoes ... ...tance with it among the few accomplishments which his satire allows to the Highlanders:— ‘In nothing they’re accounted sharp, Except in bagpipe or in ... ...- erally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe be- fore the Highlanders when they go out to battle” (Jamieson). Here it is put for the ... ...set at a good distance, at the lower end of a long table, with a parcel of Highlanders of no extraordinary appearance, over a cup of ale. Poor inspira... ... most eds. have “love.” 29. Plaided. The plaid was properly the dress of a Highlander, though it was worn also in the Lowlands. 51. The Harper on the ... ...g itself is intended as an imitation of the jorrams, or boat songs, of the Highlanders, which were usually composed in honor of a favorite chief. They... ...s here: “Hardihood was in every respect so essential to the character of a Highlander, that the reproach of effeminacy was the most bitter which could... ... seem very romantick, of which I have been credibly assured, that when the Highlanders are constrained to lie among the hills, in cold dry weather, th...

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...or the first time, “of Shaws.” It never occurred to him to doubt me, for a Highlander is used to see great gentlefolk in great poverty; but as he had ... ...e moment, for all my mind was occu- pied with the generosity of these poor Highlanders. “I call it noble,” I cried. “I’m a Whig, or little better; but... ... of his in a wayside fountain. Thought I to myself: “If these are the wild Highlanders, I could wish my own folk wilder.” I not only started late, but... ...le place that ever pigs were styed in, full of smoke, vermin, and si- lent Highlanders. I was not only discontented with my lodg- ing, but with myself... ...ing to me. I told him not at all; that I had seen much to admire among the Highlanders; and if he came to that, Mr. Campbell him- self was a Highlande... ...elling, than to my great surprise (for I was now used to the politeness of Highlanders) he burst rudely past me, dashed into the room, caught up a jar... ...words came back to me: that we ourselves might take a lesson by these wild Highlanders. Well, here I had taken mine. Alan’s morals were all tail-first... ...on, lay waiting his trial in Edinburgh Castle; they were in ill-blood with Highlander and Lowlander, with the Grahames, the Maclarens, and the Stewart... .... “I would name no unnecessary names, Mr. Balfour,” said he; “above all of Highlanders, many of whom are obnoxious to the law.” “Well, it might have b...

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... may have been at Preston Pans, under General Sir John Cope, when the wild Highlanders broke through all the laws of disci- pline and the English line...

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... see Bethink him of Glendowerdy, And shun “the spirit’s blasted tree.” The Highlander, whose red claymore The battle turned on Maida’s shore, Will, on...

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... the aloes and geraniums sprouts the green petticoat and scarlet coat of a Highlander. Fatigue-parties are seen winding up the hill, and busy about th... ...tic to the hearer than it is to the sandy Connaught-man or the bare-legged Highlander who delivers it. It is best to read about wars comfortably in Ha...

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...s. Besides the above, we sat down to table with Captain Goff, late of the —Highlanders; the Reverend Lemuel Whey, who preaches at St. Germains; little...

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... a new attitude the world has seen on a less exten- sive scale before. The Highlanders of the seventeenth cen- tury, for example, were cruel and blood...

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...oth parties, we have no hesitation to give their names at length. When the Highlanders, on the morning of the battle of Preston, 1745, made their memo... ... target. The officer was now defenceless, and the battle-axe of a gigantic Highlander (the miller of Invernahyle’s mill) was uplifted to dash his brai... ...stances from his own mouth. He was a noble specimen 6 Waverley of the old Highlander, far descended, gallant, courteous, and brave, even to chivalry.... ...e magistrates, if broadswords and dirks could be obtained, to find as many Highlanders among the lower classes, as would cut off any boat’s-crew who m... ...e ancient families, but they were all Whigs and Presbyte- rians except the Highlanders; and respecting them she must needs say, there could be no grea... ...ody servants who had swords and pistols, and the depreda- tors were twelve Highlanders, completely armed after the manner of their country.—Having del... ...as never been a safe or quiet residence when we have been at feud with the Highlanders. When I was a girl about ten, there was a skir- mish fought bet... ... broke several panes in the north windows, they were so near. Three of the Highlanders were killed, and they brought them in, wrapped in their plaids,... ...is topic, the door suddenly opened, and, ushered by Saunders Saunderson, a Highlander, fully armed and equipped, entered the apartment. Had it not bee...

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...e is a Campbell foully murdered, and that in the King’s service. The Duke and I are Highlanders. But we are Highlanders civilised, and it is not so wi... ... high responsi- bility in this affair. You are not like these ignorant, barba- rous Highlanders, but know what the law is and the risks of 96 Robert ... ...ision of fuel. All these were discharged upon the crag. Andie, myself, and my three Highlanders (I call them mine, although it was the other way about... ...nd and was headed directly for the Base. This was very troublesome to Andie and the Highlanders; the whole business of my sequestration was designed f... ...rhaps if you’ll glance an eye upon that paper you may change your note.” The stupid Highlanders had taken from me at the time of my seizure nothing bu... ...want.” CHAPTER XV – BLACK ANDIE’S TALE OF TOD LAPRAIK I HAVE YET SAID LITTLE of the Highlanders. They were all three of the followers of James More, w... ...,” says he; “and keep the tongue of ye inside your Hielant chafts!” In dealing with Highlanders it will be found, and has been shown in history, how w... ...ack knife was in his hand that moment. There was no time to think; and I caught the Highlander by the leg, and had him down, and his armed hand pinned... ...ath, till the affair was over; the second, the strength of my own position with the Highlanders, who must have received extraordinary charges to be te...

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...bitterness of spirit which seldom fails to attend internal dissension. The Highlanders, who formed the principal strength of Charles Edward’s army, we... ...etter seated on the fourth round of a ladder, and painting a bare-breeched Highlander, holding a pint-stoup as big as himself, and a booted Lowlander,... ...le upon his good opinion by submission. All his impressions concerning the Highlanders are taken from the recollections of the Forty- five, when he re... ...narmed and disorderly insurgents, propose to encounter a regular army. The Highlanders are now totally disarmed.’ ‘In a great measure, perhaps,’ answe... ... and, on opening the apartment door, again was confronted by the visionary Highlander, whose bloody brow bore token, on this second appearance, to the...

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...that wore the Plaid, Shepherds and Herdsmen.—Like a whirlwind came The Highlanders, the slaughter spread like flame; And Garry thundering down h...

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...he news and its details as gave to her the appearance which amongst Celtic Highlanders is called fey. This was at some little town where we changed ho...

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...now on board are principally from the South of England? Mormon agent. And from Wales. That’s true. Uncommercial. Do you get many Scotch? Mormon agent....

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...red to an officer, and turned to reenter the hall. At this moment a second Highlander burst through the gate, in spite of the sentinel placed there by...

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...ive. Miss Alison, indeed, was always sending him expresses, but I do not know if she had many answers. Macconochie rode for her once, and found the hi...

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... about the throat, with little pockets of holland (shaped something like a Highlander’s purse) tied in front of their frocks, and destined to serve th...

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... brown holland gardening suits of the London cousins. ‘In training for the Highlanders?’ was Arthur’s mischie- vous aside to Octavia, setting her off ...

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...ll. “See! I begin with the North,” said he. “There’s the Afghan, and, as a highlander, he despises all the dwellers in Hindoostan-with the excep- tion...

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................................................ 214 Note 10.—FIDELITY OF THE HIGHLANDERS. ................................................................. ... a bat- tery of four cannon, of which he discharged three on the advancing Highlanders, and then drew his sword. Invernahyle rushed on him, and requir... ...r to rebels!” was the undaunted reply, accompanied with a lunge, which the Highlander received on his target, but instead of using his sword in cuttin... ...at the officer by the Miller, one of his own followers, a grim-looking old Highlander, whom I remember to have seen. Thus overpowered, Lieutenant-Colo... ...tor derives relief from this fund, he will, in the language of the gallant Highlander, “Cast his eye to good old Scotland, and not forget Rob Roy.” (L... ...nd excellent temper (saving the short and hasty expressions of anger which Highlanders call a fuff), I now proposed the plan to her in such a way as w... ...on— the falcon that drives the heath-bird frae the glen.” Janet, like many Highlanders, was full of imagination, and, when melancholy themes came upon... ...struck the observers greatly, and yet it scarcely did so. For me, I was no Highlander myself, and the Highland chiefs of old, of whom I certainly knew... ...d to do so. This indeed was the feeling with which she was regarded by the Highlanders in the neighbourhood, who looked upon Elspat MacTavish, or the ...

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...t thou leave thine own bonny Border? Why comes thou hither, disturbing the Highlander, Wasting the glen that was once in fair order? What added to Ser... ... that, although these civil commotions reflect the highest honour upon the Highlanders, being indeed the first occa- sion upon which they showed thems... ...ent causes; and the trade of incursion and depreda- tion, which the Scotch Highlanders at all times exercised upon the Lowlands, began to assume a mor... ...e King’s 39 Sir Walter Scott behalf. Now, sir, you know the nature of our Highlanders. I will not deny them to be a people stout in body and valiant ... ...d, from what I can see and hear, the Convention are the purse-masters. The Highlanders, indeed, may be kept in humour, by allowing them to steal cattl... ...tates of the King’s friends; now, were we once in the Low- lands, with our Highlanders and our Irish at our backs, and 41 Sir Walter Scott our swords... ...nd—But stop, we shall be overheard.” From a side-door in the hall glided a Highlander into the apartment, whose lofty stature and complete equipment, ... ... “Ye manna speak to her e’en now,” whispered the old at- tendant. The tall Highlander, sinking down upon the empty settle next the fire, fixed his eye... ...the mind, then so common both in England and the Lowlands of Scotland, the Highlanders of this period were rarely infected. They had, however, their o...