ellwand

“` ` Can this be really true? '' said I. ` ` Pate swears it's as true as that his ellwand is a yard lang ---”

Rob Roy

““Can this be really true?” said I. “Pate swears it’s as true as that his ellwand is a yard lang — (and so it is, just bating an inch, that it may meet the”

Rob Roy

“Can this be really true?" said I. "Pate swears it's as true as that his ellwand is a yard lang -- (and so it is, just bating an inch, that it may meet the English measure) -- And when the chield had said his warst, there was a terrible cry for names, and out comes he wi 'this man Morris's name, and your uncle's, and Squire”

Rob Roy — Volume 01

“He was a gey (considerably) auld man than, but as straucht as an ellwand, and jist pooerfu 'beyon' belief.”

Robert Falconer

“This legend of the "miraculously created ellwand standard" was afterwards duly attested by a weekly service in the Church of St. John of Beverley.”

Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1

“Methinks I see the pair upon the mountains of Tipperary -- John with a beard of three inches, united and blended with his shaggy black locks, an ellwand-looking cane with”

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)

“A pedlar, too, who has got through a portion of the Excursion before the sun has illumed the mountain-tops, is mortifying, with his piled pack and ellwand.”

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

“A lively, bustling, arch fellow, whose pack, and oaken ellwand studded duly with brass points, denoted him to be of Autolycus's profession, occupied a good deal of the attention, and furnished much of the amusement, of the evening.”

Kenilworth

“A lively, bustling, arch fellow, whose pack, and oaken ellwand studded duly with brass points, denoted him to be of Autolycus’s profession, occupied a good deal of the attention, and furnished much of the amusement, of the evening.”

Kenilworth