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  • Johnson took a cursory view, and then to what is called the Laigh

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • We went to the Advocates Library [98], of which Dr. Johnson took a cursory view, and then to what is called the Laigh

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Library, of which Dr Johnson took a cursory view, and then to what is called the Laigh (or Under) Parliament House, where the records of

    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767

  • Yet, on the whole, the Townend minister had not been fairly dealt with, for, if ever man was the product of environment, that man was the minister of the "Laigh" or Townend Kirk.

    Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

  • Andrew, obdurate in the Laigh Kirk of Glasgow as on the mountains of Cheviot, for some time deigned me no answer; and it was only when he found I could not otherwise be kept quiet, that he condescended to inform me, that, being once in the church, we could not leave it till service was over, because the doors were locked so soon as the prayers began.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • "There will not be a soul in either place," she cried; "they are all serious men and will only be found where all good Christians ought to be on the Lord's Day Morning, and that's in the Barony Laigh (Low) Kirk!"

    Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

  • They found the Laigh Kirk to be a gloomy underground crypt into which light was but sparingly admitted by a few Gothic windows.

    Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

  • Alluding to a scoffing ballad which was made on the admission of the late reverend and worthy Mr. Lihdsay to the “Laigh Kirk.

    The Ordination 1909

  • Union, benefits to Scotland, v. 128, 248; discussed in the Laigh, v. 40; few printed books before it, ii.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Laigh, v. 40; signatures of the Hanoverian Kings preserved in it, v. 41; laigh-shops, v. 40, n.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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