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  • Tummel, who originates from Santa Barbara sources from organic local farmer's markets the restaurant's produce and fresh ingredients.

    Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: Ciudad of Los Angeles 2008

  • Sure by Tummel and Loch Rannoch we'll have gatsos watching Broon

    There's No One Quite Like Macavity... 2007

  • How often and willingly do I not look again in fancy on Tummel, or Manor, or the talking Airdle, or Dee swirling in its Lynn; on the bright burn of Kinnaird, or the golden burn that pours and sulks in the den behind Kingussie!

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • The belief in the efficacy of these charms appears to have lingered in the Highlands of Pertshire down to the end of the eighteenth century, for at that time it was still customary in the beautiful parish of Logierait, between the river Tummel and the river Tay, to unloose carefully every knot in the clothes of the bride and bridegroom before the celebration of the marriage ceremony.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • The belief in the efficacy of these charms appears to have lingered in the Highlands of Pertshire down to the end of the eighteenth century, for at that time it was still customary in the beautiful parish of Logierait, between the river Tummel and the river Tay, to unloose carefully every knot in the clothes of the bride and bridegroom before the celebration of the marriage ceremony.

    Chapter 21. Tabooed Things. § 11. Knots and Rings tabooed 1922

  • Garry and Tummel, Tweed and Tay—he used to think of these as of something almost sacred; while even the name of that insignificant stream, the Water of Leith, sounded on his ear like sweet music, evoking a strangely tender and pathetic emotion.

    Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Lewis Spence 1914

  • Logierait, between the river Tummel and the river Tay, to unloose carefully every knot in the clothes of the bride and bridegroom before the celebration of the marriage ceremony.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • It forms the highest and narrowest part of a magnificent wooded defile in which the waters of the Tummel flowing eastward from Loch Rannoch meet the waters of the Garry as it plunges down from the Grampians.

    Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

  • Tummel, "the _wale_ of Scotland," as he named it to me, and the

    Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871

  • Tummel, for starting-points to any curious worshipper who would go the round in Scotland and miss nothing.

    Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871

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