Abb's

If there was one person, he would be called, I suppose, who's so important was a man called the Abb's.

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution 1989

In the same year his son recovered Fast Castle (on St. Abb's Head), and the Scots also recovered Jedburgh.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

"We are off St. Abb's Head," was the reply, shouted at the top of the man's voice, that it might be heard, for in the din and roar it was difficult to make each other understand.

Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

The picture of Abb's Valley and the result of his trusting in the

A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

After counting his losses in the mountains about the Grisdol clearing, the warriors killed in Abb's Valley, and now his losses here at Howard's Creek, the score was distinctly against him.

A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

We timed our progress so as to pitch our last camp within a mile of the settlement in Abb's Valley on the Bluestone, intending to reconnoiter it for signs of the Dales before showing ourselves.

A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

His raid into Virginia had been disastrous even though he could count the four Grisdols, the seven men, women and children in Abb's Valley in his death score.

A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

I hoped that Cousin in escaping from Abb's Valley had taken our horses with him; and I prayed he would reach Howard's Creek ahead of Black Hoof.

A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

Antwerp, when I first felt this rudeness: we struck a fog-bank off St. Abb's Head to begin with, and a sand-bank off Middlesborough, and listened there to the cocks crowing on shore without seeing a foot ahead for the thickness of the grey, wet mist.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

He had been trained in the hardest of all schools, that of the coasting trade, and he knew every swirl of the tide and every sandbank between St Abb's and

The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892