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  • "A more unfriendly man to the Laird of MacLachlan might be for hanging you on the gibbet at the town-head," said his lordship to the prisoners, spraying ink-sand idly on the clean page of a statute-book as he spoke; "but our three trees upbye are leased just now to other tenants, -- Badenoch hawks a trifle worse than yourselves, and more deserving."

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • But his lordship, Justiciar-General, upbye, has sent his provost-marshal with letters of arrest to the place in vain.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • "Where's my stoup?" were his first words; "my poor lads upbye must be wearying for water."

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • The carline, she sits in the neuk yonder, upbye, and cracks about the grand shooters and hunters lang syne --- Odd, I think they hae killed a 'the deer in the country, for my part.' '

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • The carline, she sits in the neuk yonder, upbye, and cracks about the grand shooters and hunters lang syne — Odd, I think they hae killed a’ the deer in the country, for my part.”

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • 'There's such a throng about heaven's gate,' said he, 'that it's only a mercy to open two;' and he was a good and humour-some Protestant-Papist till the day he went under the flagstones of his chapel upbye. "

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • They say upbye that she's been a bonnie handfu 'tae her father -- General though he be -- an' a 'peety her man. "

    Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

  • They say upbye that she's been a bonnie handfu 'tae her father -- General though he be -- an' a 'peety her man. "

    Rabbi Saunderson Ian Maclaren 1878

  • [Illustration: HE WATCHED THE DISPERSION OF HIS POTATOES WITH DISMAY] "Yir neebur upbye, the General's dochter, is cairryin 'on an awfu' rig the noo at the Castle" -- Kildrummie fell into dialect in private life, often with much richness -- "an 'the sough (noise) o' her ongaeins hes come the length o 'Muirtown.

    Rabbi Saunderson Ian Maclaren 1878

  • "Yir neebur upbye, the General's dochter, is cairryin 'on an awfu' rig the noo at the Castle" -- Kildrummie fell into dialect in private life, often with much richness -- "an 'the sough o' her ongaeins hes come the length o 'Muirtown.

    Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

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