kilties

He took a week to relieve Lucknow, feeling his way in along the route our message had suggested, battering the pandies with his artillery, and only turning his kilties and Sikhs on them when he had to.

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He took a week to relieve Lucknow, feeling his way in along the route our message had suggested, battering the pandies with his artillery, and only turning his kilties and Sikhs on them when he had to.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

He took a week to relieve Lucknow, feeling his way in along the route our message had suggested, battering the pandies with his artillery, and only turning his kilties and Sikhs on them when he had to.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

A rabble of prisoners -- Jägers, Grenadiers, Uhlans, what-nots -- came trudging down the road, an unshorn, dishevelled herd of cut-throats, propelled by a brace of diminutive kilties, who paused occasionally to treat them to snatches of flings and to hoot triumphantly.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 Various

Sixty of the kilties paid with their lives the price of this premature shell, including the Sergeant.

S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant

In due time, he was sent to the front and was captured by “the ladies from hell, ” as the Germans called the Scotch kilties.

At the Battle-Fronts in the Great War 1921

In due time, he was sent to the front and was captured by “the ladies from hell,” as the Germans called the Scotch kilties.

A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Bok, Edward 1921

I love talking to the Scottish boys — the kilties.

Your Boys Gipsy Smith 1903

In due time, he was sent to the front and was captured by "the ladies from hell," as the Germans called the Scotch kilties.

A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Edward William Bok 1896

Among those buyers, it's likely the sturdy laces and safety toes, rather than kilties, that attract.

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