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  • Maccombich waiting to make report of his turn of duty in a sort of ditch which they had dug across the Castle-hill and called a trench.

    Waverley 2004

  • The water is brought in leaden pipes from a mountain in the neighbourhood, to a cistern on the Castle-hill, from whence it is distributed to public conduits in different parts of the city.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • Murdoch, Duke of Albany, the founder of this stately pile, was beheaded on the Castle-hill of Stirling, from which he might see the towers of Doune, the monument of his fallen greatness.

    Waverley 2004

  • Castle-hill, of which he had given so glowing an account.

    The Island Home Richard Archer

  • As we expect to be up, and on our way to Castle-hill before sunrise to-morrow.

    The Island Home Richard Archer

  • Meantime the Portuguese troops, to the number of seven hundred, had marched up to the Castle-hill, commanding the principal streets in the town, and had taken with them four pieces of artillery, and threatened to sack the town.

    Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

  • Castle-hill, awaited there the proceedings of the enemy.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

  • After the late hours we had kept on the last evening, most of us would willingly have prolonged our slumbers beyond the time previously fixed for setting out upon our return to Castle-hill.

    The Island Home Richard Archer

  • Henry; but his Scottish nephew had refused to follow the lead, and in that year five other heretics were burned on the Castle-hill of

    John Knox A. Taylor Innes

  • Prince's-street, up the Castle-hill, into the gardens, and up the vennels.

    The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection Various

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