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  • In a flash I thought of Mistress Betty with her hair down, roused by the marauding crew, and I ran hurriedly down the street shouting the burgh's slogan, "Slochd!"

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • It was not, this time, the old half-pay officers but a lower plane of the burgh's manhood, the salvage and the wreckage of the wars, privatemen and sergeants, by a period of strife and travel made in some degree unfit for the tame ways of peace in a stagnant burgh.

    Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

  • The commissioners of supply would see my back broken before they would help me in the burgh's work, and all the world kens the difference of the weight between public business in burgh and landward.

    Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

  • In fact, I'd be more worried if I did not see a large number of sausage enthusiasts peppering our fine burgh's sidewalks this holiday weekend.

    newyorkshitty.com 2009

  • The annual civic festival, which still takes place on the Tuesday after the second Thursday in June, is centred around the procession which has been held since the mid-16th century and involves young and old in the tradition of checking the burgh's perimeter, including the town's historic port of Blackness.

    unknown title 2009

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