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  • Strathern, called Malise with the Bright Brand; and I trow the blood of your house springs from no higher source.”

    The Abbot 2008

  • Malise Ruthven, in A Fury for God 2002, underlines the embattled identity of the lead hijacker of 9/11.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Malise Ruthven, in A Fury for God 2002, underlines the embattled identity of the lead hijacker of 9/11.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • “Ay; but if he is come to chase us all out of the castle,” said the boy, “and has twenty men at his back in disguise; and is come to say, with a hollow voice, ‘I bide my time’; and is to kill you on the hearth as Malise did the other man, and whose blood is still to be seen!”

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Malise said a number of cases also involved small boys who had been sodomised.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Magnus, succeeded Magnus II in the Orkney and Caithness titles and in the Paul share of the Caithness earldom, and it appears from a grant of the advowson of Cortachy on 12th December 1257 that Matilda daughter of Gillebert, "then late Earl of Orkney," married Malise

    Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

  • The lands of Tullibardine were obtained by the Knight in 1282, by his marriage with Adda, the daughter of Malise, Seneschal of Stratherio.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

  • Notice also the vigour of the stanzas that describe the flight of Malise.

    Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • List of the Oliphant family charters dated 1594 in the Register House in Edinburgh there is an entry of "Ane charter under the Great Seill made be Alexr to Magnus sone to Gylcryst sometime Earle of Angus of the Erledome of South Caithness" which included Berridale and lands which Magnus 'granddaughter's great-grandson Malise II conveyed to

    Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

  • And I would have won the last game, Katharine, if Malise had not interrupted us.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

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