borough-town

The cavalcade of horsemen on their road to the little borough-town were preceded by Niel Blane, the town-piper, mounted on his white galloway, armed with his dirk and broadsword, and bearing a chanter streaming with as many ribbons as would deck out six country belles for a fair or preaching.

Old Mortality 2004

Send down to the borough-town for what meal you can gather.

Old Mortality 2004

Let a stranger be introduced, for the first time, to an election, let him be shown a multitude of men reeling about the streets of a borough-town, fighting within an inch of their lives, smashing windows at the Black Bear, or where

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 Various

Why, man, though I gave her a wipe with my hanger in the heat of the matter, and cut her arm, and though she was so long after in trouble about it up at your borough-town there, der deyvil! old Meg was as true as steel.

Chapter XXXIV 1917

The cavalcade of horsemen on their road to the little borough-town were preceded by Niel Blane, the town-piper, mounted on his white galloway, armed with his dirk and broadsword, and bearing a chanter streaming with as many ribbons as would deck out six country belles for a fair or preaching.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

If you go on, you fall into their hands -- if you turn back towards the borough-town, you are in no less danger from

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

If you go on, you fall into their hands -- if you turn back towards the borough-town, you are in no less danger from

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

Send down to the borough-town for what meal you can gather.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

The cavalcade of horsemen on their road to the little borough-town were preceded by Niel Blane, the town-piper, mounted on his white galloway, armed with his dirk and broadsword, and bearing a chanter streaming with as many ribbons as would deck out six country belles for a fair or preaching.

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

Send down to the borough-town for what meal you can gather.

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801