Gretna Green

After all, it is but what you call a Gretna Green marriage. "

A Girl of the Commune 1867

"Just the mention of the name Gretna Green conjures up visions of eloping young lovers, climbing through windows and down ladders before running away to Scotland to get married.

Peter Scott's Library Blog 2009

"Gretna Green," to bivouac there for the night, and to be ready to start with the first light of morning.

The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War Winston S. Churchill 1919

"Gretna Green," Basil answered with such prompt decision that Aline was surprised.

The Heather-Moon 1889

Tubac became a kind of Gretna Green for runaway couples from Sonora; as the priest there charged them twenty-five dollars, and the Alcalde of

Building a State in Apache Land 1863

The term "Gretna Green" has since come to symbolize locations that offer less restrictive age, medical, licensure or residency requirements (see Ginger Frere, "Searching

Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2009

But the law as laid down by the high court in the Strand suddenly seemed to stop short at Dover or, indeed, Gretna Green.

As Twitter and WikiLeaks make a mockery of the high court, is this the end of privacy as we know it? 2011

Graham Birchwood, who was in the red by £150,000, met Sharon when they were teenagers and they eloped to Gretna Green three years later.

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They dared not tarry much past daylight, because the threat of their pursuers catching up was ever present, if remote, for who would expect to find them in Gretna Green?

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

A SMALL VILLAGE in the south of Dumfriesshire, Gretna Green was less than four miles from the River Sark, which served as the dividing line between England and Scotland.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010