epub |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Peter May [May, Peter]

Gigs’s croft was one of several on the lower slopes below Crobost, a narrow strip of land running down to the cliffs. He kept sheep and hens, and a couple ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ambrose Parry [Parry, Ambrose]

THIRTY he young woman’s face was puffy, her hands and feet also markedly swollen. ‘When was she admitted?’ Raven asked. Matron stood beside him at the edge of the bed, ...

epub |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:Anthony Leask

With 65,000 Scotsmen enlisted in the British Army, the country was drained of volunteers. This led to the decision to raise ten regiments of Militia, as a quasi-third line for ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Iby Fraser, Ann Gray [Iby Fraser, Ann Gray]

Farming The smell of a nice, clean byre and of the opened-up chest or 'girnel',44 where the horses' corn was kept, were ones I liked. Meadow hay also gave off ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Margaret Leigh [Leigh, Margaret]

The weather remained hot and very fine. All the crofters were busy cutting peats, and I felt rather sad that we could not do the same. But there was no ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Ray Ward, Robin Ward [Ray Ward, Robin Ward]

6 The Shores of Sicily In March 1943 the battalion moved across the Sinai Desert to a tented camp on the Palestine coast 50 kilometres north of Tel Aviv. The ...

epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Stuart McHardy [McHardy, Stuart]

Fair Annie and the Black Colonel Over the years much has been made of the Highland clansman’s loyalty to his chief. This support was rooted in the ancient traditions of ...

epub |eng | 2021-05-26 | Author:Colin S.K Walker [Walker, Colin S.K]

Jeddart justice – first hang a man and syne try him. Jock’s a mislear’d imp, but ye’re a rum-deil. Jock may be mischievious but he’s well behaved by your standards. ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-12 | Author:Robert Briscoe, Alden Hatch [Robert Briscoe, Alden Hatch]

From the bank I rode in a bus out to Tallaght under the Dublin Mountains. I recall how lovely was that summer morning, and me with my life brand new ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Alistair Moffat [Moffat, Alistair]

6 CORNETS, THE COMMON AND CARTERHAUGH HAWICK GREW very slowly after the reiving times. In the wars that followed the rift between Charles I and his parliament – what is ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Various

KELPIE STORIES FROM THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. KELPIE AS USEFUL. A MAN in carting home his peats for winter fuel was in the habit of seeing a big black horse ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dion Alexander

9 MAKING SERIOUS FUN A stream of playfulness bubbled away blithely through Colonsay’s way of life, and though most of its self-expression was spontaneous, a serious amount of organisational effort ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bannerman, John W. M.,Broun, Dauvit.,MacGregor, Martin.

denoting that he should walk in the footsteps and uprightness of his predecessors and that he was installed by right in his possessions. He was clothed in a white habit, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Eileen Ramsay

CHAPTER ELEVEN JAMIE DIPLOMATICALLY SAID no more about the encounter as they fought their way home through London’s blitzed streets. Ferelith felt that he deserved some kind of explanation but ...

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