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- noun Plural form of
highlandman .
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Examples
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Their fate, taking it, would be to be pressed southward along the backbone of Italy by new waves and waves of peoples; and among the wild valleys to lose their culture, and become highlandmen, bandit tribes and raiding clans; until the first comers of them had been driven down right into the hot coastlands of the heel and toe of Italy.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Scotland in that day, like the highlandmen of North Carolina in ours, were not up to the tricks and devices of devilish science.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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Upon seeing the king thus alone, three powerful highlandmen -- a father and two sons -- set upon him, determined to kill him or take him prisoner for their master,
Ten Great Events in History James Johonnot 1855
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