Lowlands of Scotland

Lowlander, have been ascribed to religious fanaticism; but by that disease of the mind, then so common both in England and the Lowlands of Scotland, the Highlanders of this period were rarely infected.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

When distribution first changed with the advent of the railways the difference from the old condition was accentuated, and there arose perhaps one hundred, perhaps two hundred "organs," as they were called, which, in this country and the Lowlands of Scotland, told men what their proprietors chose to tell them, both as to news and as to opinion.

Belloc Speaks - The Free Press 2007

After the Union of the Crowns, the Lowlands of Scotland came to be more and more closely bound to England, while the Highlands remained unaffected by these changes.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

When distribution first changed with the advent of the railways the difference from the old condition was accentuated, and there arose perhaps one hundred, perhaps two hundred "organs," as they were called, which, in this country and the Lowlands of Scotland, told men what their proprietors chose to tell them, both as to news and as to opinion.

The Free Press Hilaire Belloc 1911

Born and bred in the Lowlands of Scotland, Arthur Balfour avoided the narrowness and materialism of the extreme High Church; but he was a strong Churchman.

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

One cliff-like wall or the other lay to the sun all day, so that the way was lined with a profusion of every wild thing that turns green and blooms in the Lowlands of Scotland.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

Conqueror many Englishmen, and also a number of discontented Norman nobles, fled across the border to the Lowlands of Scotland, and founded some of the great families, like those of Balliol and Bruce, who later fought for Scottish liberty.

An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899

In the Lowlands of Scotland, Picts in small numbers,

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, from its source nearly to the Firth, or inlet of the ocean, in which it terminates.

Rob Roy 1887

The Ochil range -- memorial of fierce volcanic action when the lower old red sandstone was being deposited in the inland lake which stretched from east to west across the Lowlands of Scotland, and away southward without

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883