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Meanwhile the left, the Macdonalds, menaced on the flank by cavalry, were plied at a hundred yards by grape. They saw their leaders, the gallant Keppoch and Macdonnell of Scothouse, with many others, fall under the grape-shot: they saw the right wing broken, and they did not come to the shock. When all retreated they passed the dead body of Keppoch.
They lurked among the rocks and thickets which overhang the Garry, in the hope that there would soon be a battle, and that, whatever might be the event, there would be fugitives and corpses to plunder. Murray was in a strait. His force had dwindled to three or four hundred men: even in those men he could put little trust; and the Macdonalds and Camerons were advancing fast.
As a cloak it was a shocking production a hideous, unbelievable contribution to cloakhood from the hands of a mantle-making vandal but it caught the man's interest, because before his eyes danced the hunting tartan of the MacDonalds of Dhrum.
But the Topnambos were the great Loyalists of the place, and the Macdonalds the principal Separationists, and I stuck to the Macdonalds. I was searching for romance, you see, and could find none in Mrs.
This innovation on their ancient system, and confiscation of their lands, was stoutly resisted by the Scottish Gael. In Somerled, lord of the Isles, and ancestor of the Macdonalds, they found a powerful leader, and Somerled found Irish allies always ready to assist him, in a cause which appealed to all their national prejudices.
Standing on, with the wind on our port beam, we ran up Loch Linnhe, passing the entrance to Loch Leven, near to which is the Pass of Glencoe, where, as every one knows, Mac Ian, the chief of the Macdonalds of Glencoe, with a number of his family and followers, was treacherously murdered by Campbell of Glen Lyon, and a party of military under his command.
I would roast oxen whole, and hang out a flag as a signal to the Macdonalds to come and get beef and whisky. Sir Alexander was still starting difficulties. JOHNSON. 'Nay, sir; if you are born to object, I have done with you. Sir, I would have a magazine of arms. SIR ALEXANDER. 'They would rust. JOHNSON. 'Let there be men to keep them clean. Your ancestors did not use to let their arms rust.
All external objects being a blank, he soon turned to his companion to see what he could get out of him. "What part of the country are you from, my friend?" "Fra' the Isle of Skye," the man answered. "I'm one of the Macdonalds of Skye." "That's a very ancient family, is it not?" said the Doctor at a venture, knowing he could not go wrong with a Highlander.
Macdonald hearing this proposal, went at once to the Prince. 'It is right, he said, 'that a guard should be placed round the house of New Liston, but that guard must be furnished by the Macdonalds of Glencoe.
"Here's the jewellery I want to sell. It was my father's, and belonged to his father and grandfather." She opened her ungloved right hand to reveal a bonnet brooch of beautiful and very ancient workmanship showing the crest of the MacDonalds of Dhrum set with a fine cairngorm and some exquisite old paste.
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