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With shy curiosity they would smoothe the cloth woven in Paisley, forming in their minds a contrast between its elegance and that of the coats of their own red gallants made of the rough skin of the wolf or the bison.
I had, early in the summer, made friends with a Mr. and Mrs Dodds, who were living in my hotel. Mr. Dodds was a Glasgow merchant and was conducting the Portuguese side of his firm's business. Mrs. Dodds was a native of Paisley. They were both very fond of bridge, and I had got into the habit of playing with them every evening.
Their forces consisted of volunteers from Paisley, Kilpatrick, and elsewhere, who, with the assistance of a body of seamen, were towed up the river Leven in long-boats belonging to the ships of war then lying in the Clyde.
The first was a scurrilous anecdote concerning a man from Paisley, which illustrious township, by the way, appears to be the target of practically all Scottish humour, and the other treated of a Highland minister who was delivering to a long-suffering congregation a discourse upon the Minor Prophets.
He wrote much for reviews, and in 1835 produced Ion, a tragedy, followed by The Athenian Captive , and The Massacre of Glencoe, all of which were acted with success. In 1837 he introduced the Copyright Bill, which was passed with modifications in 1842. Poet, b. in Paisley where he was a weaver.
Dolly put Margaret in a rocker, untied her bonnet, and took off her soft white mull scarf long shawls they were called, and the elder ladies wore them of black silk and handsome black lace. They were held up on the arms and sometimes tied carelessly, and the richer you were, the more handsomely you trimmed them at the ends. Then for cooler weather there were Paisley and India long shawls.
I was in the locker-room of the country-club, getting dressed after the best afternoon of golf I had ever had. I had just beaten Paisley "one-up" in eighteen holes of the hardest kind of sledding. If you knew Paisley you'd understand just why I was so glad to beat him.
Claverhouse assured her on those happy days when he was living at Dudhope, and when they could be lovers among the woods there, as they had been in the pleasaunce at Paisley Castle, that he never regretted his choice, and that she was the inspiration of his life.
Stay I rather think I have a superiority somewhere about Paisley." "Just the thing," cried Bob. "It's heritable property, and therefore titular. What's the denomination?" "St Mirrens." "Beautiful! Dunshunner of St Mirrens, I give you joy! Had you discovered that a little sooner and I wonder you did not think of it we might both of us have had lots of allocations.
For a dam 95 ft. in height this is very light, compared with that of the Vehui dam at Bombay, of which the engineer was Mr. Bateman's design, where the puddle is 8 ft. broad at the top, and other instances. The same dimension was adopted for the puddle wall of the Harelaw reservoir, at Paisley, by Mr. Alexander Leslie, an engineer of considerable experience in dam construction.
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