Mhor

Moved by the same soft breeze that stirs the silver birch, a few white clouds drift slowly across an otherwise blue sky, their lilac-grey shadows passing lazily across the rock-strewn face of Beinn Mhor, the mountain whose massive presence dominates this part of South Uist.

Country diary: South Uist Christine Smith 2010

Alan Cameron, commonly called Sergeant Mhor, a freebooter of the same period, was equally remarkable for strength, courage, and generosity.

Redgauntlet 2008

When we were in Scotland we were treated to two nights at Monachyle Mhor Thanks Maw and Paw R!

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

MacTavish Mhor had not sat still on that occasion, and he was outlawed, both as a traitor to the state and as a robber and cateran.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

When we were in Scotland we were treated to two nights at Monachyle Mhor Thanks Maw and Paw R!

scone 2008

MacTavish Mhor, wished in her heart that the stern old carlin had been burnt on the day her husband had his due.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

Crunchan, the celebrated MacTavish Mhor was surprised by a detachment of the Sidier Roy.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

The prudence that might have weighed the slender means which the times afforded for resisting the efforts of a combined government, which had, in its less compact and established authority, been unable to put down the ravages of such lawless caterans as MacTavish Mhor, was unknown to a solitary woman whose ideas still dwelt upon her own early times.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

I have followed your father to the wilds of Ross and the impenetrable deserts of Y Mac Y Mhor.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

Ciar (pronounced Kiar) Mhor drew out his bloody dirk, saying in Gaelic, “Ask that, and God save me!”

Rob Roy 2005