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  • Filed under: Politics, history | Tagged: 1990, callan, edward woodward, jim jyle, the breaker | 2 Comments »

    2009 November 16 « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

  • Filed under: Politics, history | Tagged: 1990, callan, edward woodward, jim jyle, the breaker | 2 Comments »

    2009 November « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

  • November 3rd, 2008 @ 9:52 PM internet photo by james callan [flickr] via our group pool [#].

    in other blogs : farewell to all of that | Seattle Metblogs 2008

  • I was only a callan o 'some thirteen summers then, and when we had to leave the wee croft and sell the cows we were fain to live in a lonely shieling on the bare brae side, just a butt and a ben with a wee kailyard, and barely enough land to grow potatoes and keep a little Shetland cowie.

    Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Gordon Stables 1875

  • But I'm sorry for the callan, for eh but I loed his father!

    Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

  • 'A bonnie wife ye wud hae, Francie Gordon, wha, kennin her father duin ilk mortal thing for the love o 'his auld maister and comrade, tuik the fine chance to mak her ain o' 't, and haud her grip o 'the callan til hersel!

    Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

  • Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel 'for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien 'i' the same trade's mysel ', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the sea-coast, frae toon to toon.

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

  • -- O, thou spirit! whatever thou art, or wherever thou makest thyself visible! be thou a bogle by the eerie side of an auld thorn, in the dreary glen through which the herd-callan maun bicker in his gloamin route frae the faulde!

    The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

  • -- O, thou spirit! whatever thou art, or wherever thou makest thyself visible! be thou a bogle by the eerie side of an auld thorn, in the dreary glen through which the herd-callan maun bicker in his gloamin route frae the fauld!

    The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

  • You really believe what you wrote? guest, Feb 04, 2009 2: 40PM gasbags seem on the verge of doing a callan as well ... guest, Feb 04, 2009 2: 42PM

    Dealbreaker 2009

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