Dunscore

They likewise exercised their tyranny against Messrs. _Gilchrist_ in _Dunscore_, and _Taylor_ in _Wamphray_, whom they prosecuted, not only to deposition, but even excommunication, for no reason but their bearing testimony against that ensnaring oath of abjuration, and a number of other defections.

Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery

Few were the objects and lonely the man, “not a person to speak to within sixteen miles except the minister of Dunscore”; so that books inevitably made his topics.

I. English Traits. First Visit To England 1909

“Christ died on the tree: that built Dunscore kirk yonder: that brought you and me together.

I. English Traits. First Visit To England 1909

It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant.

I. English Traits. First Visit To England 1909

Scotland one day, you would gratify him, yourself, and me, by your visit to Craigenputtock, in the parish of Dunscore, near Dumfries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

I once got a hansel out of a witch's quaigh myself, -- auld Marion Mathers, of Dustiefoot, whom they tried to bury in the old kirkyard of Dunscore, but the cummer raise as fast as they laid her down, and naewhere else would she lie but in the bonnie green kirkyard of Kier, among douce and sponsible fowk.

Stories of Mystery Various 1885

'Christ died on the tree that built Dunscore kirk yonder: that brought you and me together.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

Few were the objects and lonely the man, 'not a person to speak to within sixteen miles, except the minister of Dunscore'; so that books inevitably made his topics.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

Six years after the battle one Robert Smith, of Dunscore, who had been among the rebel horsemen at Bothwell, deposed that as they, some sixteen hundred in number, were in retreat towards Carrick, he saw the royal cavalry halted within less than a mile from the field, and this was considered by the fugitives to have been done to favour their escape.

Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879