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  • They reached Rury in the evening, where they were soon after joined by

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • Now above the sleep of Rury holy things and great have passed away;

    The Grave of Rury 1922

  • “The three great waves” are “the wave of Toth, the wave of Rury, and the long, slow, white-foaming wave of Cluna.

    >Note on Celtic Mythological Allusions A. E. 1913

  • Our poets sing Ossian wandering the land of the immortals; or we read in vivid romance of the giant chivalry of the Ultonians, their untamable manhood, the exploits of Cuculain and the children of Rury, more admirable as types, more noble and inspiring than the hierarchy of little saints who came later on and cursed their memories.

    AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901

  • Old tradition has it that there was in our mysterious past such a union, a sympathy between man and the elements so complete, that at every great deed of hero or king the three swelling waves of Fohla responded: the wave of Toth, the wave of Rury, and the long, slow, white, foaming wave of Cleena.

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

  • He is some changeling and not of the blood of Rury.

    The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887

  • In summer the boy sat often with the chief bard under the thatched eaves of the dun, while the crying swallows above came and went, asking many questions concerning his forefathers back the ascending line up to Rury, and again downwards through the ramifications of that mighty stem, and concerning famous marches and forays, and battles and single combats, and who was worthy and lived and died well, and who not.

    The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887

  • Rury, and he had wrought for many, had done more credit to his workmanship than themselves, nor had he ever made the appliances of war for any of the Gael with equal pleasure.

    The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887

  • Rury, huge offspring of the gods and giants of the dawn of time.

    The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887

  • "Kansas City in many ways will be a model for the nation," Rury said.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2009

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