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  • a landing called Inversnaid, and there leave the boat, and go across the mountains.

    Rollo in Scotland Jacob Abbott 1841

  • And on the bill are Ms. Musgrave's "Sunrise" and Ms. Clearfield's "… and low to the lake falls home …," inspired by the lines "In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam/Flutes and low to the lake falls home," in the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem "Inversnaid."

    Rootin', Flutin' 40th Season Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010

  • The Huntsman: Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins skip to main | skip to sidebar

    Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins 2007

  • Inversnaid, constructed for the express purpose of bridling the country of the MacGregors.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Robin was apprehended by a party of military from the fort of Inversnaid, at the foot of Gartmore, and was conveyed to Edinburgh 26th May 1753.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Finally, the fort of Inversnaid was a third time repaired after the extinction of civil discord; and when we find the celebrated General Wolfe commanding in it, the imagination is strongly affected by the variety of time and events which the circumstance brings simultaneously to recollection.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • He appears at this period first to have removed from his ordinary dwelling at Inversnaid, ten or twelve Scots miles (which is double the number of English) farther into the Highlands, and commenced the lawless sort of life which he afterwards followed.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Glengyle and Inversnaid, which they had till then only held as kindly tenants.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • At length the head of the loch was reached, and the SINCLAIR stopped at Inversnaid.

    The Underground City 2003

  • The easier descent gave her time and a chance to do a little constructive thinking, and she pondered on all that had happened from the time she had driven Mrs Grant from the station at Tigh-Osda to when she last had encountered her boatman at Inversnaid.

    My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

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