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  • Moydart, Knoydart, Morar and Ardnamurchan, where the sea streams run like great clear rivers and the saw-edged hills are blue, and men remember Prince Charlie.

    The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

  • Moidart, the Captain of Clanranald, Donald Glas MacRanald of Keppoch, the laird of Glencoe, Stewart of Appin, and one of the Knoydart house, all of whilk we distinguished by their tartans and badges.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • I kept for a while along the ridge, with the Sound of Sleat on my right, and beyond it the high hills of Knoydart and Kintail.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • Greenock, brought Reverend Alexander McDonell, Scotus, with five hundred emigrants from Knoydart, who settled with their kinsfolk in Glengarry,

    An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

  • Baird owns the estate of Knoydart, in Inverness-shire, for which in 1857 he paid £90,000.

    Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities 1879

  • Knoydart, Morar and Ardnamurchan, where the sea streams run like great clear rivers and the saw-edged hills are blue, and men remember Prince

    The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

  • Knoydart, Morar and Ardnamurchan, where the sea streams run like great clear rivers and the saw-edged hills are blue, and men remember Prince

    The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

  • Knoydart people had done, threw them a paper and desired they might all voluntarily sign it, else he would oblige them by law, but most of the principal wadsetters [mortgage-holders] refused, on which he ordered them out of his presence ....

    Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878

  • All that day the Prince had lain in closest hiding on a hill on the confines of Knoydart, not a mile from the chain of sentinels.

    The True Story Book Andrew Lang 1878

  • Loch Nevis lies between Knoydart and Morar; Loch Morar, a freshwater loch, cuts off the peninsula of the same name from Arisaig, and this again is separated from Moidart by Lochs Nanuagh and Aylort, and Loch Shiel separates the whole group from Ardnamurchan in the south.

    The True Story Book Andrew Lang 1878

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  • sandwiched between Lochs Nevis and Hourn — often translated as Loch Heaven and Loch Hell respectively.

    January 3, 2010