Burghs

In Zetland there are several scores of these Burghs, occupying in every case, capes, headlands, islets, and similar places of advantage singularly well chosen.

Ivanhoe 2004

Those who have visited the Zetland Islands, are familiar with the description of castles called by the inhabitants Burghs; and by the

Ivanhoe 2004

He would gently sigh if you spoke of the blood of the Fitzgeralds and De Burghs; would hardly allow the claims of the Howards and Lowthers; and has before now alluded to the Talbots as a family who had hardly yet achieved the full honours of a pedigree.

Barchester Towers 2004

But the Burghs of Scotland had been there, as in every other country of Europe, fortresses of freedom and the advance-guard of constitutional civilisation.

John Knox A. Taylor Innes

So at little outlay you have the chance to go to Ireland and stay quietly and decorously with the _de Burghs_.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917 Various

'Twenty-five Years of St Andrews' may remember the account there given of the impression made by the Professor's sermon in the Town Church in the height of the contest in 1885, when the question of Disestablishment was brought so prominently before the electors of the St Andrews Burghs.

The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

The provision in the bill for terminating the representation of Irish members has been very vehemently objected to, and the right honorable gentleman, the member for the Border Burghs [Mr. Trevelyan], has said that there is no half-way house between separation and the maintenance of law and order in Ireland by imperial authority.

II. On the Home Rule Bill 1906

Burghs, occupying in every case, capes, headlands, islets, and similar places of advantage singularly well chosen.

Ivanhoe 1892

Those who have visited the Zetland Islands, are familiar with the description of castles called by the inhabitants Burghs; and by the Highlanders --- for they are also to be found both in the Western

Ivanhoe 1892

Fitzgeralds and Burghs, they were mild as compared with the rancorous hereditary factions which divided the native septs from each other.

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892