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  • Inverey cam doun Deeside, whistlin 'and playin', 123

    Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various

  • Gordon of Brackley began a feud with John Farquharson of Inverey by seizing some cattle or horses -- accounts differ -- by way of fines due for taking fish out of season.

    Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various

  • The property formerly belonged to the Farquharsons of Inverey, from whom it was acquired by Sir Robert Gordon, whose trustees disposed of the lease in 1848 to the prince consort, by whom the whole estate was purchased in 1852 and bequeathed to Queen Victoria.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • Tho’ there cam’ in with Inverey thirty and three, 25

    The Baron of Brackley 1910

  • ‘Strik dogs, ’ crys Inverey, ‘and ficht till ye’re slayn,

    The Baron of Brackley 1909

  • This was my decision, and it seemed to me that, as an officer and a gentleman, I must intimate it to him at first-hand by invading his retreat, the Colonel's Bed, over there in Strathdee, near his Inverey.

    The Black Colonel James Milne 1908

  • Farquharson of Inverey, the last of his house, as I can say looking back on him, and doomed, so a woman of second-sight had declared, when he was born, to be the last; while I, Ian Gordon, was a cadet of the

    The Black Colonel James Milne 1908

  • We have even drunk from the same cup of wine, because she preferred me hers yester-night, saying, 'To our gallant recruit Monsieur Inverey, and to his gallant nation, les

    The Black Colonel James Milne 1908

  • Black Colonel, but unconsciously, as a girl tries at the end of a story to find whether happiness be there, I turned to the signature -- "your kinsman, Jock Farquharson of Inverey."

    The Black Colonel James Milne 1908

  • "If you say that it'll be so, but it does na 'interest me; I tak' my orders frae the Chief of Inverey, nae frae King George or his officers, least o 'all a mere sergeant."

    The Black Colonel James Milne 1908

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