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  • A goblin dressed in antique armor, and having one hand covered with blood, called, from that circumstance, Lham-dearg, or Red-hand, is a tenant of the forests of Glenmore and Rothiemurcus.

    The Lady of the Lake 1810

  • A goblin dressed in antique armor, and having one hand covered with blood, called, from that circumstance, Lham-dearg, or Red-hand, is a tenant of the forests of Glenmore and Rothiemurcus.

    The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801

  • He insists upon those with whom he meets doing battle with him; and the clergyman, who makes up an account of the district, extant in the Macfarlane MS., in the Advocates 'Library, gravely assures us, that, in his time, Lham-dearg fought with three brothers whom he met in his walk, none of whom long survived the ghostly conflict.

    Marmion Walter Scott 1801

  • The forest of Glenmore, in the North Highlands, is believed to be haunted by a spirit called Lham-dearg, in the array of an ancient warrior, having a bloody hand, from which he takes his name.

    Marmion Walter Scott 1801

  • IT IS A STAGE IN THE EARTH'S LIFE, IT CYCLES UP AND DOWN COLD AND HOT. in fact, we are in a global cooling stage right now, the warming stage ended (or at least slowed) 10 years ago whatever says: no tesla - no good article dearg says:

    AskMen.com - HOME PAGE 2009

  • Science | The Guardian jschwimmer RT @dearg: Mind over body ...

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • He sits at the bord dearg (red table) in his class.

    belgianwaffle 2009

  • Some of his more attached parishioners considered him as too rash in opposing the ancient faith of their fathers; and though they honoured the moral intrepidity of their pastor, they could not avoid entertaining and expressing fears that he would one day fall a victim to his temerity, and be torn to pieces in the glen of the Cloght-dearg, or some of those other haunted wilds, which he appeared rather to have a pride and pleasure in traversing alone, on the days and hours when the wicked spirits were supposed to have especial power over man and beast.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Ir. J-ir-na - vaid, navaid; Kiutrcan do ni kogadh ar dhuine dearg-navaid.

    Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland. 1707

  • I am not sure whether the minister would not have endured the visitation of the Cloght-dearg herself, rather than the shock of Elspat’s presence, considering her crime and her misery.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

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