Do we say laird or lord

laird 658 occurrences

Macleod, the Laird of Rasay.

Her light, springing step, the lift of the throat and the fearlessness of the eye, the instinct in her for cleanliness of mind and body, carried him back forty years to the land of heather, to a memory of the laird's daughter whom he had worshiped with the hopeless adoration of a red-headed gillie.

The Laird of M'Cleod. September 12.

Laird of the Isle of Muck. September 19.

Description of the laird.

Letter from the Laird of Rasay to the authour.

His letter to the Laird of Rasay.

But Thomas Thorl received me kindly, and said that this early visitation was a symptom of grace, and that not to condemn me without trial he and some neighbours would be at the kirk at the next Lord's day, so that I would not have to preach just to the bare walls and the laird's family.

Three years later the young Laird Macadam, being ordered with his regiment for America, got leave from the king to come and see his lady mother before his departure.

Kate went home to her mother, and the laird came to the manse and begged us to take him in.

It was sanctified by me before we left Mrs. Malcolm's, the young couple setting off in the laird's chaise to Glasgow, and authorising me to break the matter to Lady Macadam.

The laird at the time with which we are now dealing was Sir James Hall, whose epitaph in the old church at Dunglass bears that he was "a philosopher eminent among the distinguished men of an enquiring age."

The Rev. Robert McMurtrie Laird, of Princess Anne, Maryland, but now temporarily at Detroit, writes to me in a spirit of affectionate kindness and Christian solicitude.

I had therefore sources of enjoyment which were a constant support, and this was particularly the case, after the scenes which were opened up in the winter of 1824 by my intercourse with the Rev. Mr. Laird.

This is the gentleman whose family is referred to in a previous part of my journal in the autumn of 1822, on the occasion of the gentle Mr. Laird's missionary visit to St. Mary's; and his high moral character and correct deportment render it a subject of mystery to me what cause of complaint his brother officers could conjure up against him. 14th.

[ILLUSTRATION: HARRY LAUDER "Laird of Dunoon."

[Footnote 1: Compare the Scottish "laird."]

R104603, 31Dec52, Donald A. Laird (A) LAIRD, DONALD ANDERSON.

SEE Laird, Donald A. MULLER, PIERRE.

LAIRD, DONALD A. What makes people buy.

Donald A. Laird (A); 29Oct62; R303239. LAMBERT, REITA.

A171041. Laird Goldsborough (E); 26Jan71; R499457.

GOLDSBOROUGH, LAIRD. Sailors in boots.

Stephen J. Covey & Laird F. Covey (C); 4Jun76; R633481.

Stephen J. Covey & Laird F. Covey (C); 4Jun76; R633481.

lord 44231 occurrences

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Among the heirlooms left by Haydn was a watch given to him by that Admiral of Admirals, Lord Nelsonand that points to us as a by-path, which it were pleasant, though forbidden now, to wander, the story of Nelson's fervent amour with Lady Hamilton, that beautiful work of art, that pet of artists.

Equally astonished at the recounter, the grocer grasped his staff, and rushing up to the earl, demanded, in a voice that made the other, despite his natural audacity, quail"Where is my child, my lord?

Because the Lord hath smitten them and driven them forth'From the least of them even to the greatest of them,' as the prophet Jeremiah saith, 'every one has been given to covetousness.'

They have cozened their neighbours, and greedily gained from them, and will find it true what the prophet Ezekiel hath written, that 'the Lord will pour out his indignation upon them, and consume them with the fire of his wrath.'

" "You are sure it was not Lord Rochester?" pursued Leonard.

I recollect, also, that you offended me about a dog belonging to the piper's pretty daughter, Nizza Macascree, which I was about to destroy in obedience to the Lord Mayor's commands.

"It is not difficult to foresee what will become of it," replied Leonard, "unless it pleases the Lord to stay his vengeful arm.

In 1640, the Scottish army, under General Leslie, faced the Royalist troops, under Lord Conway, on the south side of the river.

It had been Lord Conway's task to prevent this, but owing to his incapacity or want of whole-hearted enthusiasm for his cause, he failed entirely.

Many of the raw levies on the English side fled at the first sound of the Scottish cannon; but the master of the ordnance, Lord Sinclair, was killed, and his guns silenced.

*** The LORD-LIEUTENANT, it is stated on good authority, threatens that if Sinn Fein prisoners destroy any more jails they will be rigorously released.

"What's your job, Binderbeck?" said the C.S.M. (To ask Lord NORTHCLIFFE, "Do you sell newspapers?"

My suggestion is that, with the consent of Lord NORTHCLIFFE and the Allies, a slice of the old Front should be kept up in statu quo, and a representative assortment of troops retained to hold it on what was our side, and to carry on the War as it was in the good old days of '15, when we thought our life's work was bespoken and soldiers with boy babies raised the question of making acting rank hereditary.

Of the others my first vote goes to "The Surgeon of Gaster Fell," and my second to "The Prisoner's' Defence;" but if you are susceptible to Sir ARTHUR'S sense of fun I can also recommend "The Fall of Lord Barrymore" and "One Crowded Hour."

"And I supposethe Lord's love came with them!

To-day the verses from Old and New Testaments were these: "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way."

"'The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.'

Among them were Lord Falkland, John Hales, and William Chillingworth, the last of whom is famous for his unflinching protest that 'the Bible, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants,' a saying which was as good as a charter to those who based their so-called heresies on the explicit words of Scripture.

He spoke in the warmest terms of Lord Sligo,[A] the predecessor of Sir Lionel Smith, who was driven from the island by the machinations of the planters and the enemies of the blacks.

Lord Sligo was remarkable for his statistical accuracy.

[Footnote A: When Lord Sligo visited the United States in the summer of 1836, he spoke with great respect of Mr. Hill to Elizur Wright, Esq., Corresponding Secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Lord Sligo also added, that Mr. Hill was treated in his family in all respects as if he had not been colored, and that with no gentleman in the West Indies was he, in social life, on terms of more intimate friendship."

In 1827, at Palmyra, in New York, a young man named Joseph Smith announced that he had received a new bible from an angel of the Lord.

R104534, 29Dec52, Arthur S. Otis (A) OUR Lord victorious; Easter cantata.

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