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  • He was received among them with exclamations of joy; and, hearing that a body of Mackintoshes, a Jacobite clan, were marching to reinforce Sir

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

  • From henceforth the disputes with the clan Chattan, and the long-standing feuds with the Mackintoshes, merged into obscurity compared with the more stirring interests into which the chieftains were now, fatally for their prosperity, intermingled.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • [154] The Mackintoshes, whose impetuosity hurried the right wing into action before the order to engage had been transmitted over the lines.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

  • Maclaclans and Macleans, the Mackintoshes, the Stuarts, attacked sword in hand.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • The other Shaws of the clan fought long and ably for its recovery, but though they were helped by their kinsmen, the Mackintoshes, and though good Scotch blood dyed the gray walls of the fortress for many generations, the castle never again came into the hands of the Shaws.

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • Mackintoshes covering night-shirts were the rule rather than the exception.

    Tales of St. Austin's 1928

  • —On Aug. 18, ’88, he wrote: ‘I will now go to bed, the more so as I am going to preach tomorrow and put plainly to a Highland congregation of MacDonalds, Mackintoshes, Mackillops, and the rest what I am putting not at all so plainly to the rest of the world, or rather to you and Canon Dixon, in a sonnet in sprung rhythm with two codas.

    Notes 1918

  • The other Shaws of the clan fought long and ably for its recovery, but though they were helped by their kinsmen, the Mackintoshes, and though good Scotch blood dyed the gray walls of the fortress for many generations, the castle never again came into the hands of the Shaws.

    The Story of a Pioneer 1915

  • Athol men, the Camerons, the Stewarts of Appin, Macleans, Mackintoshes, and other smaller clans, each led by their own chiefs, and all commanded by Lord George.

    The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

  • Lord George was about to give the word to charge, when the Mackintoshes impatiently rushed forward, and the whole of the centre and left wing followed them.

    The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

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