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As for steering, they never would let me go to the helm, except during a calm, when I and the figure-head on the bow were about equally employed. By the way, that figure-head was a passenger I forgot to make mention of before. He was a gallant six-footer of a Highlander "in full fig," with bright tartans, bare knees, barred leggings, and blue bonnet and the most vermilion of cheeks.
Explained by the celebrated Dr Johnson, as "so named from its progression into the ocean, and the circuit by which it must be doubled." Introduct. to the World Displayed. Clarke. Cape Bojador is imagined to have been the Canarea of Ptolemy. Clarke I. 15 The barcha is a sort of brig with topsails, having all its yards on one long pole without sliding masts, as still used by tartans and settees.
They differed on every possible point. They wore different tartans, sat under different ministers, drank different brands of whisky, and upheld different doctrines in regard to eternal punishment. To add to the feud the McWhinuses had grown rich, while the McShamuses had become poor.
One wore English armor, with his visor closed; the other, a knight, was in tartans. The Scot presented her with a signet, set in gold. Helen looked on it, and immediately recognized the same that her stepmother always used. The Scottish knight was preparing to address her, when the prior interrupted him, and taking Lady Helen's hand, made her seat herself.
SIDIER DHU, black soldiers, independent companies raised to keep peace in the Highlands; named from the tartans they wore. SIDIER ROY, red soldiers, King George's men. SIKES, small brooks. SILLER, silver, money. SIMMER, summer. SLIVER, slice, slit. SMOKY, suspicious. SNECK, cut. SNOOD, a fillet worn by young women. SOPITE, quiet a brawl.
"It iss this minute that I hear Dugald crying to the Almighty, 'Remember our lads, and be their help in the day of battle, and give them the necks of their enemies, and he might be wrestling for half an hour, when Ina rose from her knees and said, 'The prayer is answered, for the tartans have the field, and I see blood on Ronald, but it is not his own." "And did you ever hear "
I am going to read up all about the Highlands, and learn the tartans, and the names of fishes and birds; and I will walk in the rain and try to think nothing about it; and perhaps I may learn a little Gaelic: indeed, Keith, when you see me in the Highlands, you will find me a thorough Highland-woman." "You will never become a Highland-woman," he said, with a grave kindness. "Is it needful?
"When he had done, the tall young man in the tartans drew his sword, and, his face being straight to us, we heard him say distinctly, 'No more words about it, George, if you please; but if you be a man, as I take you to be, draw your sword, and let us settle it here.
The door through which she was to pass opened, as was very common in Edinburgh, into a dark passage. In this passage, and within a yard of her when she opened the door, stood the apparition of her kinsman, the deceased officer, in his full tartans, and wearing his bonnet.
It was amidst a hopeless drenching drizzle, which blots out the chief features of a landscape, that the Queen went ashore, to find "a great gathering of Highlanders in their different tartans" met to do her honour. Frasers, Forbeses, Mackenzies, Grants, replaced Campbells, Macdonalds, Macdougals, and Macleans.
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