preakin-tower

Updated: May 16, 2025

There will be a hundred strapping Elliots to ride the brouze the like's no been seen sin' the days of auld Martin of the Preakin-tower I wad send the sled for ye wi' a canny powny." "Is it to me you propose once more to mix in the society of the common herd?" said the Recluse, with an air of deep disgust.

Sir Walter Scott - The Black Dwarf

In one of the most remote districts of the south of Scotland, where an ideal line, drawn along the tops of lofty and bleak mountains, separates that land from her sister kingdom, a young man, called Halbert, or Hobbie Elliot, a substantial farmer, who boasted his descent from old Martin Elliot of the Preakin-tower, noted in Border story and song, was on his return from deer-stalking.

Sir Walter Scott - The Black Dwarf