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Tolbooth, that is the south-west portion of the Collegiate Church of St. Giles, until the year 1640, when the present Parliament House was completed.
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He placed her in the same cart she took to Tolbooth yesterday.
Archive 2010-05-01 Molly Daniels 2010
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Once immured in the Tolbooth, I would never get back to the stone circle.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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I rather doubted that the cuisine at the Tolbooth was as good as that to be had at Colum's board.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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He placed her in the same cart she took to Tolbooth yesterday.
Terrific Tuesday with Lyn Armstrong:) Molly Daniels 2010
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Tolbooth of Edinburgh, where he dayley converses with all the
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Urged by such motives for apprehension, they eagerly relieved each other at the labour of assailing the Tolbooth door: yet such was its strength, that it still defied their efforts.
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When he came up to Butler again, he found him with his eyes fixed on the entrance of the Tolbooth, and apparently in deep thought.
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Last year, to complete the change, a tomtit was pleased to build her nest within the lock of the Tolbooth, — a strong temptation to have committed a sonnet, had the Author, like Tony Lumpkin, been in a concatenation accordingly.
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Few persons now living are likely to remember the interior of the old Tolbooth, with narrow staircase, thick walls, and small apartments, nor to imagine that it could ever have been used for these purposes.
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