United States or Liberia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Cupar Angus?" this from the porter "that's the Aiberdeen slow; it's no made up yet, and little chance o't till the express an' the Hielant be aff. Whar 'll it start frae?" breaking away; "forrit, a' tell ye, forrit."
"Well," said Adams, "I have promised Berselius, and I will have to go. Besides, there are other considerations." He was thinking of Maxine, and a smile lit up his face. "You seem happy enough about it," said Stenhouse, rising to go. "Well, 'he who will to Cupar maun to Cupar. When do you start?" "I don't know yet, but I shall hear to-night." They passed out into the Rue St.
With that Tobit Balmutto ordered the lad who brought my grandfather to the house to saddle a horse that he called Spunkie; and in a trice he was mounted and on the road after Sir David, whom he overtook notwithstanding the spirit of his mare, Skelp-the-dub, before he had cleared the town of Pathhead, and they travelled onward at a brisk trot together, the knight waxing more and more pleased with his companion, in so much that by the time they had reached Cupar, where they stopped to corn, he lamented that a young man of his parts should think of following the slavery of a ferrier's life, when he might rise to trusts and fortune in the house of some of the great men of the time, kindly offering to procure for him, on their arrival at St Andrews, the favour and patronage of his kinsman, the Archbishop.
"'The sublime preacher could not be heard of, although all the country was sought for him, even to the minutest corner of St. Johnston and Dundee; but as he had announced another sermon on the same text, on a certain day, all the inhabitants of that populous country, far and near, flocked to Auchtermuchty. Cupar, Newburgh, and Strathmiglo, turned out men, women and children.
Andrew, you will see the horses put up." The Hecate looked at me with surprise, and then ejaculated "A wilfu' man will hae his way them that will to Cupar maun to Cupar! To see thae English belly-gods! he has had ae fu' meal the day already, and he'll venture life and liberty, rather than he'll want a het supper!
'Quite an authority in law! sneered the Sheriff. 'Yes, I have been three times before the court of session and won each time. I knew your father, who was a decent shoemaker in Cupar, and when he sent you to learn to be a lawyer he little thought he was making a tool for those he despised.
The next day was like a cried fair in St. Andrews. All the country from ayont Cupar, and many reformed and godly persons even from Dundee and Perth, were gathered into the city to hear the trial of Master Walter Mill.
Two dogs living in the neighbourhood of Cupar, in Fife, used to fight desperately whenever they met, the one belonging to Captain R , the other to a farmer. Captain R 's dog was accustomed to go on messages, and even to bring meat and other articles from Cupar in a basket.
Soon these came in of every sort and shape, and in a week's time the Regiment was concentrated at Blairgowrie. The headquarters of the Regiment was at Kirkcaldy, the four Squadrons A, B, C, and D having their headquarters respectively at Cupar, Dunfermline, Dundee, and Forfar.
But they had not long crossed the Cupar road and travelled the one leading to the ferry when they heard the whirlwind sound of horsemen coming after them, at which the honest man of Crail darted aside and lay flat on his grouff ayont a bramble bush, while my grandfather began to lilt as blithely as he could, "The Bonny Lass of Livingston," and the spring was ever after to him as a hymn of thanksgiving, but the words he then sang was an auld, ranting, godless and graceless ditty of the grooms and serving-men that sorned about his father's smiddy, and the closer that the horsemen came he was strengthened to sing the louder and the clearer.
Word Of The Day