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  • M'Leod's "Original National Melodies," and the several small volumes of

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • "I will go and see," I said, and explored M'Leod's new-built servants 'wing.

    Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I ventured into the dining-room where the thoughtful M'Leod's had left a small fire.

    Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I was relieved when I reached M'Leod's City office, and could tell him what I had done -- not what I thought.

    Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Information being thus obtained at Edinburgh, a ship was sent to bring her off; but intelligence of this being received, she was conveyed to M'Leod's island of Herries, where she died.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Colonel M'Leod, instead of being all life and gaiety, as I have seen him, was at present grave, and somewhat depressed by his anxious concern about M'Leod's affairs, and by finding some gentlemen of the clan by no means disposed to act a generous or affectionate part to their Chief in his distress, but bargaining with him as with a stranger.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • They said, it was annually proved by M'Leod's steward, on whose arrival all the inhabitants caught cold.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Green sleeves, '&c. While the examination was going on, the present Talisker, who was there as one of M'Leod's militia, could not resist the pleasantry of asking Kingsburgh, in allusion to his only song,' Had she green sleeves? '

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • The present Mr. M'Sweyn left Sky upon the late M'Leod's raising his rents.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • M'Leod's at the time, inhospitably rose upon him, as he bivouacked on the shores of the Bay of Laig; and in a fray, in which his party had the worse, his back was broken, and he was forced off half dead to sea.

    The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

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