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For at the first onset the great gallowglass, amazed to see his man yet living, and ashamed, perchance, of his foul stroke, missed his mark and tumbled in a heap upon his foeman's sword.— Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
= The kern or cateran of the Highlands was a light-armed infantryman, as opposed to the heavy-armed "gallowglass."— Lady of the Lake
Bonnaught and gallowglass, throng from each mountain pass.— Three Wonder Plays
And mollify the slaughtering gallowglass;— Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris
Am I to be told my duty by a raw-boned, ill-conditioned Irish gallowglass that I have fed at my table and spent half my life in making a gentleman of?— Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess

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