Colonsay

At school, she met a girl whose family owns Colonsay – theyshared a passion for junket – and soon began holidaying there, adopting her friend's parents as her own.

What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam 2010

Mosaic's mine in Colonsay is one of many potash facilities in Saskatchewan, which is concerned about the possibility of a price war.

BHP Roils Potash Cartel 2010

When she married her first husband, the heir to an earldom, her Colonsay daddy gave her away while her real, Edinburgh daddy sat quietly in a frontpew.

What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam 2010

Looking forward to spring in Cumbria, summer on Colonsay, and autumn in Camberley.

Reasons to be cheerful 2008

Here the fish is excellent as at Porto cla Lenha, and we found the people catching it in large spoon-shaped basins: I enquired about the Peixe mulher (woman-fish), the French sirène, which old missioners describe as an African mermaid, not exactly as she appeared to the “lovely lord of Colonsay,” and which Barbot figures with “two strutting breasts.”

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

They would see the distant islands where the chief of Colonsay is still mourned for on the still evenings by the hapless mermaiden, who sings her wild song across the sea.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

Western Highlands, and was living in some house on the coast, how sad and still the Atlantic must have been all this wet forenoon, with the islands of Colonsay and Oronsay lying remote and gray and misty in the far and desolate plain of the sea!

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

"Never yerl o 'Colonsay had a better," said Miss Horn.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

It could not with certainty be assumed that the smaller and less wealthy proprietors, in particular, would have been able to make the great sacrifices which they have so generously submitted to, and without which the people of Wester Ross and Skye, of Islay and Colonsay, and many other places, would have laid on the relief fund a burden far heavier than it has had to bear.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

Lords Colonsay and Redesdale concurred; and the Earl of Winchelsea, as

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous