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And yet from the moment I got down from the gillie's cart I seemed drawn under a persisting surveillance.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post
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But all the skill he had shown in the morning seemed to have deserted him; and at last he gave the rod to Duncan, and, sitting down on a top-coat flung on the wet heather, indolently watched the gillie's operations.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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Along an infinite invisible tightrope taut from zenith to nadir the End of the World, a twoheaded octopus in gillie's kilts, busby and tartan filibegs, whirls through the murk, head over heels, in the form of the
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Correi in a gillie's charge while we followed at leisure, picking our way among the loose granite rocks and the patches of wet bogland.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
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Instead of firing at it, he thrust his gun into a gillie's hands, crying: "Hold that! hold that!" and whipping out his pencil and pad he began to sketch the stag.
Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902
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A little solitary mountain farm or gillie's house stood at some distance from the road, approached by a muddy cart-track.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
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It was the mercy of Providence that preserved the gillie's life.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892
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This was on the occasion when the fly Max was throwing came dangerously near hooking into the gristle of the young gillie's most prominent feature.
Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870
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And besides, he had the whole of the young gillie's weight to bear, while his foothold was exceedingly insecure.
Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870
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The great forester stood by while Kenneth threw over some fifty feet of the rope, and then stood smiling grimly, while, in defiance of all advice, and trusting utterly to the strength of the gillie's arms,
Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870
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