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He lived at a castle called Cardross, on the beautiful banks of the river Clyde, near to where it joins the sea; and his chief amusement was to go upon the river, and down to the sea in a ship, which he kept for his pleasure.
Heroes Every Child Should Know Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880
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A mischievous spirit is haunting Laura's Cafe in Cardross, Scotland!
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: This Week's "Amazing Realm of Bizarre News Top 7" Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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Foreign architecture students who make pilgrimages to see St Peter's have often been unable to locate it, lost as it is inside the 140-acre Kilmahew Forest, near the small town of Cardross, about 25 miles outside Glasgow, whose great architectural scion was Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Scotland's creepiest building in £10m restoration scheme 2011
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A mischievous spirit is haunting Laura's Cafe in Cardross, Scotland!
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: This Week's "Amazing Realm of Bizarre News Top 7" Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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[Return to the letter] 6 Maria Erskine (1776-1824), the widow of John Erskine of Cardross.
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On the 7th June, 1329, King Robert died (probably a leper) at his castle of Cardross, on the Clyde, and left the Scottish throne to his five-year-old son, David II.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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-- Smollett, the third in order and in rank of the novelists of his age, was born at Cardross, Dumbartonshire, in 1721, of a good family; but he had small means.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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Cardross, and sister of David, ninth Earl of Buchan.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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The Scotch bar had once to boast in Mr. Erskine, of Cardross, of a pleader quite as diminutive as Mr. Collis.
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection Various
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Pilcher's first glides, which he carried out on a grass hill on the banks of the Clyde near Cardross, gave little result, owing to the exaggerated dihedral angle of the wings, and the absence of a horizontal tail.
A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914
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