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  • Buchanan's was a family business that began when a boy took 7lb jars of his mother's home-made jam and sold them from a handcart around the Loch Lomondside village of Drymen.

    Life is sweet 2011

  • Sassenach gentleman as far as Drymen or Bucklivie, — or the Clachan of

    Rob Roy 2005

  • We were up early this morning and went to have a look round the village of Drymen and its surroundings before breakfast.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • We passed Kilmaronock church in the dark and, after crossing the bridge over Endrick Water, entered Drymen and put up at the

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • But ye cannot return by Drymen --- I must set you on

    Rob Roy 1887

  • I'll e'en pit on my boots the morn, and be jogging ower Drymen

    Rob Roy 1887

  • I am but a poor man; but wit's better than wealth -- and, cousin "(turning from me to address Mr. Jarvie)," if ye daur venture sae muckle as to eat a dish of Scotch collops, and a leg o 'red-deer venison wi' me, come ye wi 'this Sassenach gentleman as far as Drymen or Bucklivie, or the

    The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885

  • The first, in point of time, was EDWARD BRICE, M.A., who, on account of his strenuous opposition to all efforts to introduce Episcopacy into Scotland, was compelled to leave his parish, Drymen in Stirlingshire; turning his attention to Ireland, he directed his steps to Broad Island in County Antrim, where an old acquaintance had settled in 1609.

    Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers 1846

  • Sassenach gentleman as far as Drymen or Bucklivie, -- or the Clachan of

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Drymen Muir wi 'Mr. Frank here; and if I canna mak Rob hear reason, and his wife too, I dinna ken wha can -- I hae been a kind freend to them afore now, to say naething o' ower-looking him last night, when naming his name wad hae cost him his life -- I'll be hearing o 'this in the council maybe frae Bailie Grahame and MacVittie, and some o' them.

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

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