Ellerslie

Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is our chief; and with the power of his virtues, he subdues not only friends, but enemies, to his command.

The Scottish Chiefs 1875

The veterans, who had followed the chief of Ellerslie from the first hour of his appearing as a patriot in arms, could not brook this aspersion upon their leader's honor; and had it not been for the vehement exhortations of the no less incensed, though more moderate Scrymgeour and Lockhart, they would have risen in instant revolt.

The Scottish Chiefs 1875

The Cranes are reading and loafing in the canvas - curtained summer-house, fifty yards away, on a higher (the highest) point; the cats are loafing over at Ellerslie, which is the children's estate and dwelling house in their own private grounds

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

The Cranes are reading and loafing in the canvas - curtained summer-house, fifty yards away, on a higher (the highest) point; the cats are loafing over at Ellerslie, which is the children's estate and dwelling house in their own private grounds

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Near Ruther Glen in Caroline is "Ellerslie" the old home of the Moncures so named from the home of Wallace in Scotland.

A History of Caroline County, Virginia 1924

Anna George in 1800 and brought her, a bride, to "Ellerslie" his home, a part of the original grant of land, which at this date

A History of Caroline County, Virginia 1924

They called the little house "Ellerslie," out of Grace Aguilar's "Days of Robert Bruce."

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

They called the little house "Ellerslie," out of Grace

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Then there was the romantic name of "Ellerslie," which, notwithstanding considerable precocity in reading and spelling I carried off as "Elleressie" Yeas afterward when the actual syllables confronted me in a historical sketch of Wallace, the truth entered like a stab and I closed the book.

The Delicious Vice Young Ewing Allison 1892

The Cranes are reading and loafing in the canvas-curtained summer-house 50 yards away on a higher (the highest) point; the cats are loafing over at "Ellerslie" which is the children's estate and dwellinghouse in their own private grounds (by deed from Susie Crane) a hundred yards from the study, amongst the clover and young oaks and willows.

Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872