Colinton

A Colinton Mains Drive resident reports that there is still grit on the pavements "left over from the snow."

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Hillary and Bill Colinton spent the 1990s perfecting NAFTA, which has sold out thousands of US manufacturing jobs over the border.

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Next night they reached the village of Colinton, four miles from

Lay Morals 2005

Unwilling to believe their own doom — for our insurgents still hoped for success in some negotiations for peace which had been carried on at Colinton — they called out, ‘They are some of our own.’

Lay Morals 2005

On the morning of Wednesday, the 28th of November 1666, they left Colinton and marched to Rullion Green.

Lay Morals 2005

[276] Sir James Foulis of Colinton was appointed Clerk-Register in 1531, and was also admitted a Lord of Session, at the first meeting of the

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

In the manse garden at Colinton there was a mysterious and delightful gap that gave egress to the Water of Leith, and to pass through this and stray, out of safe and guarded precincts, into a wide and wet world beyond was a keen pleasure to the little boy whose gipsy instincts were already loudly calling to him to take 'the road' his wandering soul so dearly loved.

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

James Balfour-Melville, Esq., who gives the name of his uncle, the minister of Colinton, as Lewis Balfour, and so the old clergyman signed himself all his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

John, and by the exercise of steady industry and frugality, he was enabled to purchase Spylaw, a small estate in the parish of Colinton, about four miles from Edinburgh, where he erected a snuff-mill on the banks of the Water of Leith,

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Colinton appears to have been a great snuff-making centre.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings