Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... course , be made to fit this upstart of a house , and many a knoll , covered with its tangled brushwood , and blazing with the yellow gold of the whin and the broom , must be levelled and swept away to convert the whole into an English ...
... course , be made to fit this upstart of a house , and many a knoll , covered with its tangled brushwood , and blazing with the yellow gold of the whin and the broom , must be levelled and swept away to convert the whole into an English ...
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... course he was turned off . Poor Sandy Bell had walked twenty - seven miles a day for thirty years of his life , and at his dismissal was fresh as May . He bitterly complained that he lost , first his bread , “ by they new - fangled ...
... course he was turned off . Poor Sandy Bell had walked twenty - seven miles a day for thirty years of his life , and at his dismissal was fresh as May . He bitterly complained that he lost , first his bread , “ by they new - fangled ...
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... , and I had fair play . The ferox bored like a harpooned whale ; sometimes he would change his course and go down to the bottom , taking forty 66 yards of line , which he made swirl through the 20 CORRACH - BAH ; OR ,
... , and I had fair play . The ferox bored like a harpooned whale ; sometimes he would change his course and go down to the bottom , taking forty 66 yards of line , which he made swirl through the 20 CORRACH - BAH ; OR ,
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... course over this mountain , in the way their trade . From what motive is not known , but when they came to this spot , she seized a stone , murdered her wretched husband , then coolly walked on to the next sheeling , where she slept ...
... course over this mountain , in the way their trade . From what motive is not known , but when they came to this spot , she seized a stone , murdered her wretched husband , then coolly walked on to the next sheeling , where she slept ...
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... course have more rises , and fix more fish , but the idea is absurd . If they have arrived at such a pinnacle of perfection , why not reduce their tackle to a single horse- hair ? And if even this should be too strong 28 SALMON ANGLING .
... course have more rises , and fix more fish , but the idea is absurd . If they have arrived at such a pinnacle of perfection , why not reduce their tackle to a single horse- hair ? And if even this should be too strong 28 SALMON ANGLING .
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