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  • We have heard a rumour, indeed, that Colkitto — that is, young Colkitto, or Alaster

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • Twice afterwards, on some renewed aggression, in 1502 and 1552, we find the Macgregors again banding themselves into a sept of ‘Sons of my love’; and when the great disaster fell on them in 1603, the whole original legend reappears, and we have the heir of Alaster of Glenstrae born

    Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

  • Alaster? '' she said to the minstrel --- ` ` why a lament in the moment of victory?

    Rob Roy 1887

  • Twice afterwards, on some renewed aggression, in 1502 and 1552, we find the Macgregors again banding themselves into a sept of 'Sons of my love'; and when the great disaster fell on them in 1603, the whole original legend reappears, and we have the heir of Alaster of Glenstrae born 'among the willows' of a fugitive mother, and the more loyal clansmen again rallying under the name of Stevenson.

    Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Alaster M ` Grigor of Glenstre (and a number of others nominatim),

    A Legend of Montrose 1871

  • Colkitto, or Alaster M ` Donald, is come over the Kyle from Ireland, with a body of the Earl of Antrim's people, and that they had got as far as Ardnamurchan.

    A Legend of Montrose 1871

  • Princess and the Chevalier had disappeared, and with them Alaster

    Condensed Novels: New Burlesques Bret Harte 1869

  • Edinburgh; but his sons had remained at large, and Alaster had been recently figuring in Antrim's train in Ulster, and acting for Antrim among the Irish rebels, with great repute for his bravery, and his huge stature and strength.

    The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

  • The peculiarity having been transmitted to his son Alaster, it was not uncommon to distinguish the two as old Colkittoch and young

    The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

  • The peculiarity having been transmitted to his son Alaster, it was not uncommon to distinguish the two as old Colkittoch and young Colkittoch.

    The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

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