camerons

Updated: May 20, 2025

My being a Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press and having lived since childhood at Willard's Hotel, where the Camerons also lived, will furnish the key to my becoming an actual and active rebel. A few days after the inauguration of Mr.

Henry Watterson - Marse Henry (Volume 1): An Autobiography

They carried themselves with a warrior look, so hard, so lean, so clear-eyed, these young Scots of the Black Watch and Camerons and Gordons.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told

Private Fairweather, of the Black Watch, gives this account of an engagement on the Aisne: "The Guards went up first and then the Camerons, both having to retire. Although we had watched the awful slaughter in these regiments, when it was our turn we went off with a cheer across 1,500 yards of open country. The shelling was terrific and the air was full of the screams of shrapnel.

James Alexander Kilpatrick - Tommy Atkins at War: As Told in His Own Letters

The line of the regulars was formed directly fronting the attack of the Highlanders; it glittered with the appointments of a complete army, and was flanked by cavalry and artillery. But the sight impressed no terror on the assailants. "'Forward, sons of Ivor, cried their chief, 'or the Camerons will draw the first blood! They rushed on with a tremendous yell. "The rest is well known.

H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall - English Literature for Boys and Girls

Uncle Jabez, in his dusty garments, appeared for a moment at the door of the mill as they flashed past in the big motor car. Evidently he was amazed to see the three the girls hatless starting off at such a pace in the Camerons' car. Tom threw in the clutch at high speed and the car bounded over the road, gradually increasing its pace until the hum of the engine almost drowned out all speech.

Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island : Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box

So effectually had the spirit of the disaffected clans been cowed that Mackay marched unresisted from Perth into Lochaber, fixed his head quarters at Inverlochy, and proceeded to execute his favourite design of erecting at that place a fortress which might overawe the mutinous Camerons and Macdonalds.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3

The Bearer answers for the MackInnans, MackLeods of Rasa at least . . . . . 300 The Bearer answers for the Chisolms . . . 200 The Bearer answers for the Robertsons . . . 250 Camerons . . . 500 Stuart of Alpin . . . 250 McNeals of Barra . . . 150 MackPhersons . . . 350 McIntoshes . . . 350 Frazers . . . 400 MackGregors . . . 200 Athol men, at least . . . 500 Out of Brodulbin . . . . 300

Andrew Lang - Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles

He talked less and did more than usual; and Hamish bade his mother and Shenac notice how quiet and manly he was growing, when he startled them all by a declaration that he was going with the Camerons and some other lads to the lumbering, far up the Grand River. "I'm not going to the school.

Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson - Shenac's Work at Home

The unhappy woman had other causes, aside from the failure of her matrimonial schemes and the contempt of the Camerons, for anxiety and unhappiness.

Mrs. Georgie Sheldon - His Heart's Queen

The line of the regulars was formed directly fronting the attack of the Highlanders; it glittered with the appointments of a complete army, and was flanked by cavalry and artillery. But the sight impressed no terror on the assailants. 'Forward, sons of Ivor, cried their Chief, 'or the Camerons will draw the first blood! They rushed on with a tremendous yell. The rest is well known.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Volume 2