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Updated: June 19, 2025
I wonder if you'd care to see it?" Joyselle pursed up his lips. "I should, but I warn you, it is probably an imposture. Most cherished violins are that are in the hands of non-players." "No doubt, but Sarasate has played on this one, and he believed it to be genuine." "Aha! When may I come?" Carron named a near day, and then they went upstairs.
At his request, that others might not suffer what he had endured under the pressure of the slain, the field had been sought for the wounded. Many were conveyed into the neighboring houses, while the dead were consigned to the earth. Deep have been dug the graves of mingled Scot and English on the banks of the Carron!
McCain's eyes, a whiteness of cheek, a clutching at the left side of the breast; it resulted also in his beginning to walk very slowly indeed. One day Adrian met Carron, his uncle's physician, as he was leaving a club after luncheon. Carron stopped him. "Look here, Adrian," he said, "is that new man of your uncle's that valet, or whatever he is a good man?" Adrian smiled.
I have gone into foreign ports in the dead of night, our hail for light but answered by Sir Echo, and we would be waiting for light, with the smell of flowers and trees about us, and " "That would be worth sailing for," said Gilian, looking hard at the embers in the Carron stove. "Or the beast of the wood might come roaring and bellowing to the shore."
"My papa is dead," he answered cheerfully, "but Uncle Chris is there." Brigit looked at Carron for a moment, and then went downstairs with her hand on the little boy's shoulder. "And what is your name?" she asked. "I'm Bob Seymour, and this is Patty. Uncle Chris has been painting us. He gives us a shilling apiece each time." "How very nice."
This method of manufacture was followed with success, though for some time, as indeed to this day, the principal production of the Carron Works was castings, for which the peculiar quality of the Scotch iron admirably adapts it. The well-known Carronades, or "Smashers," as they were named, were cast in large numbers at the Carron Works. To increase the power of his blowing apparatus, Dr.
It was Robert Bruce, seeking to offer his services to his country and to wipe out the stigma that his father had cast upon his name. IV. The Traitors None fought more fiercely than Robert Bruce in the attack made by Wallace's men upon the English on the banks of the Carron, and the traitor, Earl of March, fell by the young warrior's own hand.
The necessity for a new power had set many ingenious men to work besides Watt, and some of these were trying to adopt Watt's principles while avoiding his patent. Hatley, one of Watt's workmen upon the trial engine at the Carron works, had stolen and sold the drawings.
Leaping every bound, the eager van led the way; and, with prodigious perseverance, dragging their war-machines in the rear, the rest pressed on, till they reached the Carron side.
At first he applied himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he did with great success on his estate of Dalswinton. Being one of the largest shareholders in the Carron Ironworks near Stirling, he also devoted much of his time to the improvement of guns for the Royal Navy. He was the inventor of that famous gun the Carronade.
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