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  • "Where is your chief?" she yelled, seeing Argyll's horse without a rider.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • "Where is your chief?" she yelled, seeing Argyll's horse without a rider.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • Montrose turned southwards and made a rapid dash at Argyll's forces as they lay at Inverlochy, and won a complete victory, the news of which dispersed Seaforth's men and enabled Montrose to invite Charles to a country which lay at his mercy.

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • To the women at Argyll's table he was the most interesting man there, and though materially among the least eminent and successful, had it been his humour to start a topic of his own in opposition to his patron's, he could have captured the interest of the gathering in a sentence.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • [263] In the same way Mr. Lewes, in criticising the Duke of Argyll's "Reign of Law" (_Fortnightly Review_, July 1867, p. 100), asks whether we should consider that man wise who spilt a gallon of wine in order to fill a wineglass?

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • Although Argyll's army considerably outnumbered his own,

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • For this was not wholly the wilds, and Argyll's manner, though stern, was that of one who desired in all circumstances to be just.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • For why should he be amused at the paucity of the visitors from Argyll's court to the residence of Doom?

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • Argyll's hands he was at least assured of the forms of justice, though that, in truth, was not the most consoling of prospects.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • In all his notions of Drimdarroch's habitation, since he had seen the poverty of Doom, he had taken his idea from the baron's faded splendour, and had ludicrously underestimated the importance of Argyll's court and the difficulty of finding his man.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

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