The whole place was like a mad, sweet-scented dream to one just come from the unfeatured ocean, and with a memory only of grim Scots cities and dour Scots hills.

The whole place was like a mad, sweet-scented dream to one just come from the unfeatured ocean, and with a memory only of grim Scots cities and dour Scots hills.

There's a heap of Scots redemptioners hereaways.

"Of all the brazen Scots" he cried.

The ships were the least of the business, for the dour Scots seamen were a match for all comers.

he said in broad Scots.

What did they teach you at Lesmahagow if ye don't know that Ringan is the Scots for Ninian?

I mind a man at Norfolk, a Scots redemptioner, who had the tongue of a devil and the strength of a wolf.

The soft hum of gentlefolks' speech was all around me, those smooth Virginian voices compared with which my Scots tongue was as strident as a raven's.

He had a shrewd, kind face, like a Scots dominie, and a mouth that shut as tight as the Governor's.

A Scots tongue is pleasant in her ear.

So we must move cannily, as you Scots say.

"On the morning of St. Barnaby, called the Bright, being the 24th of June, 1314, Edward advanced in full form to the attack of the Scots, whom he found in their position of the preceding evening.

All the remainder of the English troops, consisting of nine battles, or separate divisions, were so straitened by the narrowness of the ground, that, to the eye of the Scots, they seemed to form one very large body, gleaming with flashes of armour, and dark with the number of banners which floated over them.

The belief that they beheld the rise of an ambuscade, or the arrival of a new army of Scots, gave the last impulse of terror, and all fled now, even those who had before resisted.

While still pretending to negotiate with them, he had signed a treaty with the Scots, promising to establish Presbyterianism in England, and their army was already marching south.

That night the Scots determined to retreat, and at once began to scatter.

" "Are the Scots then again inclined to his majesty's cause?

While trying and executing Montrose for loyalty to the king, the Scots were themselves negotiating with Charles, commissioners having come over to Breda, where he was living, for the purpose.

While he was swearing to observe everything the Scots asked of him, he was writing to Ormonde to tell him that he was to mind nothing he heard as to his agreement with the Scots, for that he would do all the Irish required.

While he was swearing to observe everything the Scots asked of him, he was writing to Ormonde to tell him that he was to mind nothing he heard as to his agreement with the Scots, for that he would do all the Irish required.

The Scots were a day or two later routed by the English horse, and comparatively few of them ever regained their country.

Oh, last and best of Scots!

"Scots Paper.

The paintings in the hall and other rooms in Hatfield House include portraits of the great Burleigh, Sir Robert and other Cecils, by Lely and Kneller; Henry VIII., Anne Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earl of Leicester, and Queen Elizabeth.