creagh

The creagh is yet remembered in which he swept one hundred and fifty cows from Monteith in one drove; and how he placed the laird of Ballybught naked in a slough, for having threatened to send for a party of the Highland Watch to protect his property.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

He heard with great gravity all that could be told him of the circumstances of the creagh, and expressed his confidence that the herd-widdiefows14 could not have carried their booty far, and that he should be able to recover them.

Rob Roy 2005

Another time he advertised us of a wedding, and behold it proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he foretold to us we should bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but

Waverley 2004

For however little ye may make of the flight I have put him to, none of the men of Erin, [11] not even four of the five provinces of Erin [11] could have obtained so much as that of him on the Cow-creagh of Cualnge.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

"In the advance," observes Sir Walter Scott, "they showed the sentiments of brave men, come, in their opinion, to liberate their fellow-citizens; in the retreat, they were caterans, returning from a creagh."

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

The former is abridged, and the latter omitted; as also a lively detail of the _creagh_, in which the Monroes are reproached with their spoilages of cheese, butter, and winter-mart beef.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

He heard with great gravity all that could be told him of the circumstances of the creagh, and expressed his confidence that the herd-widdiefows could not have carried their booty far, and that

Rob Roy 1887

Eleians had driven a _creagh_ of cattle from the Pylians, who pursued, and Nestor killed the Eleian leader, Itymoneus.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

Another time he advertised us of a wedding, and behold it proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he foretold to us we should bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but a fat bailie of Perth. ''

The Waverley 1877

Kind Gallows of Crieff. goodsire died, and where I hope he'll live to die himsell, if he's not shot or slashed in a creagh. ''

The Waverley 1877