Cantyre

Cantyre about the end of the fifth century, and for long they had only the small Dalriadic territory of Argyll, and even this they all but lost more than once.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

Thence they held on to Cantyre, and landed there, and fought with the landsmen, and got thence much goods, and so fared to their ships.

The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown

Glasgow Broomielaw, and go round the Mull of Cantyre, instead of catching it up at Oban, because she knows the people in the boat, and she and Mairi would be among friends.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

This breathing spell was fortunate, for at dark the wind came in squalls, and on rounding the Mull of Cantyre the ocean swells sent most of the passengers to their berths seasick.

The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

Far in the horizon the Scotch coast could be seen all along the line, while the Mull of Cantyre looked but a few miles away, the very houses and boundaries being almost distinguishable.

A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune Edward Newenham Hoare

She had never been round the Mull of Cantyre, and so he would sit by her side and show her the wild tides meeting there, and the long jets of white foam shooting up the great wall of rock.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

And there was purple Scotland, hardly, you'd think, a stone's throw from the shore -- the Mull of Cantyre, a resounding name, like a line in a poem.

The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

Cantyre and Rathlin Island; part fills up the Firth of Clyde, while the rest flows south, and, swirling round the west side of the Isle of Man, helps the southern current to fill the Bay of Liverpool.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

Small wonder, with never a gun or a sword left from Cantyre to Cape Wrath, but what tenty12. 1 folk have hidden in their thatch!

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

Cantyre, listening to the Erse songs of the rowers:

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886