Merse

Obtaining the top-secret documents could be the journalistic coup of the year, Merse acknowledged: "I don't want us to get ahead of ourselves, but around here a lot of us are thinking Pulitzer."

Andy Borowitz: Afghan War Not Going Very Well, Reports Duh Magazine 2010

Obtaining the top-secret documents could be the journalistic coup of the year, Merse acknowledged: "I don't want us to get ahead of ourselves, but around here a lot of us are thinking Pulitzer."

Andy Borowitz: Afghan War Not Going Very Well, Reports Duh Magazine 2010

The Castle of Ravenswood, occupying, and in some measure commanding, a pass betweixt Berwickshire, or the Merse, as the southeastern province of Scotland is termed, and the

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

If any man can track the tread of them, I will say in the face of both Merse and

The Monastery 2008

“To prefer some clownish Merse laird to the gallant young nobleman, and to the secure possession of Ravenswood upon terms of easy compromise — it would be the act of a madwoman!”

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Indeed, she displayed so much kindness to Jeanie Deans (because she herself, being a Merse woman, marched with Mid – Lothian, in which Jeanie was born), showed such motherly regard to her, and such anxiety for her farther progress, that Jeanie thought herself safe, though by temper sufficiently cautious, in communicating her whole story to her.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Merse, very few ballads of any note or originality could possibly escape his enthusiastic inquiry; for, to his love of ballad literature, he added the patience and research of a genuine antiquary.

Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Various

Most grudgingly was the boon bestowed, and not until the boy had obtained security for his good behaviour to the extent of two thousand pounds sterling was he allowed to return to the Merse.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

The Merse has given many a gallant man to the mother-country, oftentimes

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

Scotland, Sir Ralph Rivers and Sir Bryan Laiton came to Jedburgh with an army of 5,000 English to seize Merse and Teviotdale in the name of

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 Various