Do we say loch or lock

loch 327 occurrences

We then passed by Loch Achray to Glasgow, where we found James Parker's brother (his father, of the house of Macinroy and Parker, being a wealthy merchant of Glasgow).

We then went to Fort William and Oban, and crossed over to Mull, where we were received by Maclean of Loch Buy.

lake, loch, lough^, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin^, puddle, slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water, sheet of water; fish pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir &c (store) 636; alberca^, barachois^, hog wallow [U.S.].

A beautifully romantic tract, beginning immediately to the east of Loch Katrine in Perth, Scotland.

Our friend Walter paid a visit last summer to a gentleman on the banks of Loch Lomondthe scene of Rob Roy's exploitsand was at great pains to learn all the traditions of the country regarding him from the clergyman and old people of the neighbourhood, of which he got a considerable stock.

It give a great screech, and a wallop in the face of me, and jumped into the loch, and by milkin'-time next morninga Thursday it wasma sister Maggie came into the door cryin', 'Och and och, ma poor man, and him so kind and so young,' and fell on the floor as stiff as a board.

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Fine, strong north west wind 91° 110° 4 Greshak Fine, strong north-west wind 85° 88° 5 Loch.

There was a lower flat, and one above, which thus constituted an entire house; and which, moreover, rejoiced in the privilege of having an extensive garden, running down as far as the sheet of water called the North Loch, that secret "domestic witness," as the ancients used to say, of many of the dark crimes of the old city.

These gardens were the pride of the rich burghers of the time, decorated by Dutch-clipped hollies and trim boxwood walks; and in our special instance of Councillor Yellowlees' retreat, there was, in addition, a summer-house or rustic bower standing at the bottom, that is, towards the north, and close upon the loch.

That bower by the loch, too, was favourable to the fondlings of a secret love; nor was it sometimes less to the prisoner a refuge from the eeriness which comes of ennuiif it is not the same thingunder the pressure of which strange feeling he would creep out at times when Annie could not be with him; nay, sometimes when the family had gone to bed.

Pliny tells us of the floating islands of the Lago de Bassanello, near Rome; in Loch Lomond, in Scotland, there is or was a floating island; and in the Lake of Derwent Water, in Cumberland, such islands appear and disappear at indefinite periods.

Here, from the remains of a round building, called Wallace's Tower, from its having been used as a look-out station by that chieftain, we had a beautiful view of the whole of Leven Vale to Loch Lomond, Ben Lomond and the Highlands, and on the other hand, the Clyde and the Isle of Bute.

After climbing up and down one or two heights, occasionally startling the moorcock and ptarmigan from their heathery coverts, we saw the valley of Loch Con; while in the middle of the plain on the top of the mountain we had ascended, was a sheet of water which we took to be Loch Ackill.

It is a beautiful little turquoise in the silver setting of Loch Katrine.

Loch Skein, where we were galvanized, electrified, magnetized, and petrified, all at once, by the quackery, clackery, flappery, quatter, splatter, clatter, scatter, and dash-de-blash, and squash, of a flock of wild ducks, on its reedy, flaggy surface; O, what a scutter was there!

LAKES:"Lochard, Loch-Achray, Loch-Con, Loch-Doine, Loch-Katrine, Loch-Lomond, Loch-Voil."Scott's Lady of the Lake.

LAKES:"Lochard, Loch-Achray, Loch-Con, Loch-Doine, Loch-Katrine, Loch-Lomond, Loch-Voil."Scott's Lady of the Lake.

LAKES:"Lochard, Loch-Achray, Loch-Con, Loch-Doine, Loch-Katrine, Loch-Lomond, Loch-Voil."Scott's Lady of the Lake.

LAKES:"Lochard, Loch-Achray, Loch-Con, Loch-Doine, Loch-Katrine, Loch-Lomond, Loch-Voil."Scott's Lady of the Lake.

LAKES:"Lochard, Loch-Achray, Loch-Con, Loch-Doine, Loch-Katrine, Loch-Lomond, Loch-Voil."Scott's Lady of the Lake.

LAKES:"Lochard, Loch-Achray, Loch-Con, Loch-Doine, Loch-Katrine, Loch-Lomond, Loch-Voil."Scott's Lady of the Lake.

"The North Esk, flowing from Loch-lee, falls into the sea three miles north of Montrose."Ib., p. 232.

LOCH, JOICE M. The fourteen thumbs of St. Peter, by Joice M. Nankivell, pseud.

Joice M. Loch (Joice M. Nankivell) (A); 22Nov54; R140135. LOCKE, WILLIAM J. Stories near and far.

lock 2505 occurrences

Ods bobs, here's a Compact amongst the WomenHigh Treason against the Bridegroomtherefore, Ladies, withdraw, or, adod, I'll lock you all in.

It pleased him to receive letters requesting his autograph and a lock of his hair.

"We shall have to lock up our jewelry pretty soonhuh!

Oh, but you lock pretty!" "Doesn't she!"

I was afraid she'd lock me in.

She rooms right across the hall, and her key fits the lock; so she goes in every little while.

"Do you always lock your door when you go away?" "Never," she answered,"then or at any time; we are not allowed to lock our rooms.

"Do you always lock your door when you go away?" "Never," she answered,"then or at any time; we are not allowed to lock our rooms.

Can the Constitution at the same time secure liberty to you, and expose us to oppressiongive you freedom of speech, and lock our lipsrespect your right of petition, and treat ours with contempt?

In the press-room (the basement) was placed a stonea marble-top tablewhereon the make-up man could take the strips of type as they came from the compositors, arrange them into pages, and "lock them up" in the forms, ready to put on the presses.

It is a piece of old oak, rather worm-eaten, but it has good bronzes for the drawer handles, two dogs fighting on either side of the lock plates.

Rising on the tips of her toes, she put back an unruly lock of David's hair with a last loving little pat.

Have you seen the last new invention, the hydro-potassian lock?"

"Pope's Rape of the Lock, Canto v, l. 72.

If they kept her, they should have to lock her up as in a dungeon; they and all the neighbourhood should hear her voice.

Without speaking to her mother she put her hand upon the lock of the door as though to walk forth, but found it barred.

But even on this gate the gardener had managed to fix a lock.

"Tenie 'peared ter be out'n her min' fer a long time, en her marster ha' ter lock her up in de smoke-'ouse 'tel she got ober her spells.

Wiles Tenie wuz lock up in de smoke-'ouse, Mars Marrabo tuk 'n' haul de lumber fum de sawmill, en put up his noo kitchen.

"Mars Johnson lock' de noo nigger up in de ba'n, en did n' gib 'im nuffin ter eat fer a day er so, 'tel he got 'im kin'er quiet' down, en den he tu'nt

He could still feel the criminal shudder that rippled through him at a slight rattle of the keys, which had been left with the confidence of unlimited authority in the lock of an old chest where doña Bernarda kept her savings.

SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. Adjusters manual for Singer machine 15-91 lock stitch, reversible feed for family use, P.G. built-on motors and carbon controllers, and Singer machines 15-88, 15-89, and 15-90.

Instructions for using and adjusting Singer sewing machine 111W150, single needle lock stitch.

Instructions for using Singer sewing machines 127-3 and 128-3, with attachments 120604, lock stitch for family use.

And when, a few minutes afterward, the jail-lock clicked behind him, it seemed to have shut out life.

Do we say   loch   or  lock