hership

` ` See what tidings that horn tells us of --- to announce, I ween, some hership* and robbery which has been done

Ivanhoe 1892

I tauld them I wad vindicate nae man's faults; but set apart what he had done again the law o 'the country, and the hership o' the

Rob Roy 1887

MacGregor --- I carena wha kens it --- And Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o 'the Hieland line, why, if ony heritor or farmer wad pay him four punds Scots out of each hundred punds of valued rent, whilk was doubtless a moderate consideration, Rob engaged to keep them scaithless;

Rob Roy 1887

Between sogers and Saxons, and caterans and cattle-lifters, and hership and bluidshed, an honest woman wad live quieter in hell than on the Hieland line. ''

Rob Roy 1887

"See what tidings that horn tells us of -- - to announce, I ween, some hership Pillage. and robbery which has been done upon my lands."

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

I tauld them I wad vindicate nae man's faults; but set apart what he had done again the law o 'the country, and the hership o' the Lennox, and the misfortune o 'some folk losing life by him, he was an honester man than stood on ony o' their shanks -- And whatfor suld I mind their clavers?

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

"See what tidings that horn tells us of -- to announce, I ween, some hership [12] and robbery which has been done upon my lands."

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

I tauld them I wad vindicate nae man's faults; but set apart what he had done again the law o 'the country, and the hership o' the Lennox, and the misfortune o 'some folk losing life by him, he was an honester man than stood on ony o' their shanks -- And whatfor suld I mind their clavers?

Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o’ the

Rob Roy 2005

Between sogers and Saxons, and caterans and cattle-lifters, and hership and bluidshed, an honest woman wad live quieter in hell than on the Hieland line.”

Rob Roy 2005