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Page 62 - Clanranald returned to us ; and, in about half ane hour after, there entered the tent a tall youth, of a most agreeable aspect, in a plain black coat, with a plain shirt, not very clean, and a cambrick stock...
Page 21 - Single copies of the yearly Index from 1891 may be obtained. Many of the Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries take a sufficient number of copies of the yearly Index to issue with their transactions to each of their members. The more this plan is extended the less will be the cost of the Index to each society.
Page 120 - Thence to Warrington, banks o'erflowed : Travellers to the Town were rowed, Where supposing it much better To be drown'd on land than water, Sweetly, neatly I sojourned Till that deluge thence returned.
Page 88 - ... drinking ; but when a young man he must have been esteemed handsome. His complexion is of the fair tint, his eyes blue, his hair light brown, and the contour of his face a long oval ; he is by no means thin, has a noble person, and a graceful manner. His dress was scarlet, laced with broad gold lace ; he wears the blue riband outside of his coat, from which depends a cameo antique, as large as the palm of my hand ; and he wears the same garter and motto as those of the noble order of St. George...
Page 73 - I see, gentlemen, you are determined to stay in Scotland and defend your country ; but I am not less resolved to try my fate in England, though I should go alone.
Page 27 - ... obtained. If for any reason the papers of a society are not indexed in the year to which they properly belong the plan is to include them in the following year ; and whenever the papers of societies are brought into the Index for the first time they are then indexed from the year 1891. By this means it will be seen that the year 1891 is treated as the commencing year for the Index and that all transactions published in and since that year will find their place in the series.
Page 78 - France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging, to all his Majesty's officers, Civil or Military. These are requiring you to protect and defend the...
Page 124 - tis a rule there, and one that would mind it Amongst the town-statutes 'tis likely might find it. But now into the pottage each deep his spoon claps, As in truth one might safely for burning one's chaps, When straight, with the look and the tone of a scold, Mistress may'ress complained that the pottage was cold; 'And all 'long of your fiddle-faddle,
Page 155 - To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Richard Robinson of Garstange.
Page 118 - So blithe and bonny now the lads and lasses are, That ever as anon the bag-pipe up doth blow, Cast in a gallant round about the hearth they go, And...