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...ounded in my ear like something partly for- eign. And indeed I am from the Lothians myself; it is there I heard the language spoken about my childhood... ... I heard the language spoken about my childhood; and it is in the drawling Lothian voice that I repeat it to myself. Let the precisians call my speec... ...that I repeat it to myself. Let the precisians call my speech that of the Lothians. And if it be not pure, alas! what matters it? The day draws near...

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... up a match between her cousin and a beardless boy that was something of a laird in Lothian. “Saxpence had better take his broth with us, Catrine,” sa... ... was be- ginning to grow dark. At which hour I was aware of a long, lean, bony-like Lothian man of a very swarthy countenance, that came towards us am... ...believe he valued the life of one at half-a-farthing. But that part of the coast of Lothian is to this day as wild a place, and the commons there as r... ...ser. It chanced she was cruising in the month of September, plying between Fife and Lothian, and sounding for sunk dangers. 98 Robert Louis Stevenson... ... that my captivity upon the Bass, in view of a great part of the coasts of Fife and Lothian, was a thing I should be thought more likely to have inven... ... she is come to prove that we spoke true, and I lay the prettiest lass in the three lothians at your feet – making a papistical reservation of my- sel...

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...e they were married in a morning with great mirth and joy. And King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney then wedded Margawse that was Gawaine’s mother, and K... ...ncoronation of him at the city of Carlion. Unto the feast came King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney, with five hun- dred knights with him. Also there cam...

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...a leaden creek, that a man might almost jump across, between well-powdered Lothian and well-powdered Fife. And the effect is not, as in other cities, ...

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...s known among his friends). Do you, Sir Frederick, read these letters from Lothian and the west—all is ripe for the sickle, and we have but to summon ... ...d the health of our lawful sovereign, King James the Eighth, now landed in Lothian, and, as I trust and believe, in full possession of his ancient cap...

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...ld have the use 170 Kidnapped of a boat to pass under cloud of night into Lothian, and some secret, decent kind of a man to bring that boat back agai... ...nd silence; and so, what with one thing and another, she had set us on the Lothian shore not far from Carriden, had shaken hands with us, and was out ...

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...e of Cramond. This person was ancestor of the Howisons of Braehead, in Mid-Lothian, a respectable family, who continue to hold the lands (now passed i...

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...d handsome elderly lady, seriously attired:- myself following with singular and moving thoughts. Long be- fore, to the sound of bells and streams and ...

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... long thoroughfare; now, in a lull, they would revive, re-multiply, shine again on the wet pavements, and make darkness sparingly visible. By the time...

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...stolen from Pharaoh’s granary; which wheat, when sown 1 in Norfolk or Mid-Lothian, reaped, thrashed, ground, baked, and hunted through all sorts of t...

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...ory of the upright and high-prin- cipled female, whom, in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, I have termed Jeanie Deans. The circumstance of her refusing to sa...

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... the living. But the English got the victory. Then the chief of the men of Lothian fell, pierced by an arrow, and all his followers were put to flight...

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... atten- tions of your Marquis of Montcalm—I warrant me, Duncan, that he of Lothian would buy a dozen such marquisates—but if the news of the letter we...

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... ULSTERS KING ARTHUR. EMPEROR LUCIUS. KING LOT OF LOTHIAN. KING LOGRIS. KING OF NORTHGALIS. KING MARHAL T OF IRELAN...

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...was Robert Anderson, Junior, of Whitburgh, a gentleman of property in East Lothian. He had been interrogated by the Lord George Murray concerning the ...

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...t know then, last summer, while I was taking sketches on the coast of East Lothian and Berwickshire, I was seduced into the mountains 25 Sir Walter S... ...ORGE of a pass or mountain glen, ascending from the fertile plains of East Lothian, there stood in former times an extensive castle, of which only the... ... or the Merse, as the southeastern province of Scotland is termed, and the Lothians, was of importance both in times of foreign war and domestic disco... ...it,” said the Captain, as he tossed off his brimmer, “the bonniest lass in Lothian! What a pity the old sneckdrawing Whigamore, her father, is about t... ...cher and the glass shall be replenished for thee, if all the petticoats in Lothian had sworn the contrary. What, man! I am not the boy to put myself i... ...l, no disrespect meant. Will Miss Ashton’s tocher not weigh against any in Lothian?” “Granted,” answered Bucklaw; “but I care not a penny for her toch... ...nd to, I will place you at the head of the best establishment in the three Lothians; you shall have Lady Girnington’s lodging in the Canongate of Edin...

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...r Dubglas. The little river Dunglas, which formed the southern boundary of Lothian. Whitaker says, the river Duglas, in Lancashire, near Wigan. 3 Not...

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...ested by the stained window on that subject given by the young Marquess of Lothian—a pupil for some years of Mr. Wilson at Ampfield—to the church at J... ...y Heathcote, one by the Marchioness of Bath, and one by the Marchioness of Lothian. The designs were more or less suggested by Dyce and Copley Fieldin...

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...we find them seated – Ayr, Lanark, Peebles, Stirling, Perth, Fife, and the Lothians – would seem to forbid the supposition.* ‘Stevenson – or according...

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...orders of Scotland itself than between the countries. Galloway and Buchan, Lothian and Lochaber, are like foreign parts; yet you may choose a man from...

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...e they were married in a morning with great mirth and joy. And King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney then wedded Margawse that was Gawaine’s mother, and K... ...ncoronation of him at the city of Carlion. Unto the feast came King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney, with five hun- dred knights with him. Also there cam...

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...some even of the peasantry, though these were confined to the shire of Mid-Lothian, pursued, captured, plundered, and murdered the miserable fugitives...

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...o describe a new episode in the voyage of discovery with the daughter of a Lothian farmer for a heroine. I must ask the reader to follow all these ref...

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...on, R. L. STEVENSON. Letter: TO MRS. CHURCHILL BABINGTON SWANSTON COTTAGE, LOTHIANBURN, SUMMER 1871 MY DEAR MAUD, – If you have forgotten the hand-wri... ...MRS. SITWELL [SWANSTON], MAY 1874, MONDAY. WE are now at Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh. The garden is but little clothed yet, for, you know... ...send this off to-day to let you know of my new address – Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh. Sa- lute the faithful in my name. Salute Priscilla,... ... a good time. – Yours, R. L S. Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [SWANSTON COTTAGE, LOTHIANBURN, JULY 1876.] Here I am, here, and very well too. I am glad you ... ...ers of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO MRS. SITWELL [SWANSTON COTTAGE, LOTHIANBURN, JULY 1876.] … I have the strangest repugnance for writing; ind... ... The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO EDMUND GOSSE SWANSTON, LOTHIANBURN, EDINBURGH, JULY 24, 1879. MY DEAR GOSSE, – I have greatly enjo... .... O for ten Edinburgh minutes – sixpence between us, and the ever-glorious Lothian Road, or dear mysterious Leith Walk! But here, a sheer hulk, lies p...

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...ystem as the laughing gas (nitrous oxide) acts at times. One farmer in Mid-Lothian was mentioned to me, eight months ago, as having taken it, and ever...