Mertoun

Mertoun, his clothes thoroughly wet, making his way through brooks and morasses across the bleak Shetland landscape, maintaining a dogged conflict with wind and rain in The Pirate, 28-29; Frank Osbaldistone, making his way back to Aberfoil by moonlight through a sharp frost-wind, his spirits suddenly elevated despite the danger and uncertainty of his situation, in Rob

Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism 2006

Because this view of manly charisma discounts intimate affiliations among men as binding social forces, a character such as Cleveland cannot stand being indebted to Mordaunt Mertoun, the youth who has saved his life; "there is a natural dislike" between them, he avers, "a something like a principle of repugnance in our mutual nature, which makes us odious to each other" (Scott, 209).

Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott 2006

He was a clean fish, and I hooked him in a cast in Mertoun water called the _Willow Bush_, not in the mouth but in the dorsal fin.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

And how strange, how sad for a woman is it, to see with what truth and courage Browning can make Mertoun speak!

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

Three boats were destined to this delicate piece of service, one of which the Udaller himself proposed to command, while Cleveland and Mertoun were to direct the two others.

MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous

Tresham violently repudiates her; then, meeting beneath her window the cloaked lover, attacks him, forces him to reveal himself, learns that he and the accepted suitor are one and the same, and kills him -- Mertoun (the lover) making no defence.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

If she is _not_, if Mertoun is the mere seducer ... but the suggestion is absurd.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

Already in that hour with her, Mertoun must have learnt that some of those high words were turned to slighter uses when they sang of Mildred

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

This is the woman to whom, but a page or two back, young Mertoun has sung the exquisite song, known to most readers of Browning's lyrics:

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

But I shouldn't think Mertoun would want to fit a man he'd never seen.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914