Loch-awe

A dead silence reigned, while the demon of hatred was taking possession of almost every breast; and none but the lords Mar, Badenoch, and Loch-awe, escaped the black contagion.

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Lennox and Loch-awe looked on each other with amazement.

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The last day of the old year he spent with Lord Loch-awe, in Kilchurn Castle; and after a bounteous feast, in which lord and vassal joined, according to the custom of the country, the whole family sat up the night to hail the coming in of the new season.

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On Loch-awe and Lennox observing him stand thus before the bonneted and seated chiefs (a stretch of magisterial prerogative which had not been exercised on a Scottish knight for many a century), they took off their caps, and bowing to Wallace, refused to occupy their places on the benches while the defender of Scotland stood.

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In such a frame of mind did she listen to the relation of Edwin; did her animated eye welcome the entrance of Badenoch and Loch-awe, and their enthusiastic encomiums on the lord of her heart.

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"No," said he to Loch-awe; "it is indeed time that I should sink into shades where I cannot be found, since I am become a word of contention amongst my countrymen."

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The firmness with which he spoke, and the determined expression of his noble countenance, convinced Loch-awe that he was not to be shaken; and rising from his knee, he bowed in silence.

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Wallace turned to the veteran lord of Loch-awe, who uttered this with a blunt determination that meant to say, the election which had passed should not be recalled.

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Then sending Scrymgeour, with a resolute band across the Carron, to bring in the wounded (for Edward had encamped his army about a mile south of the field of action), he took his lonely course along the northern bank towards a shallow ford, near which he supposed the squadrons of Lord Loch-awe must have fought, and where he hoped to gain accounts of him from some straggling survivor of his clan.

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Lord Loch-awe had possessed himself of the western coast of Scotland, from the Mull of Kintyre to the farthest mountains of Glenmore.

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