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STORY OF THE BARBADOES HURRICANE of 1831

... itrathwaite, my host, that skies such as these were said presage wind; and if so, added, we have regular hurricane sky to-night. I spoke this jest, very little dreaming of the coming reality. About nine o'clock the family retired to rest. All was ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1898
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2258 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... in all the solid, yet it teems to toe to-night that I have home. My dear husband and child are deid, but somehow I feel nearer to them to. night than I have ever felt before. 'You gave your own name to-night, missy,' e..id the servant, changing the subject ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1899
Newspaper: Jedburgh Gazette
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4990 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

General Intelligence

... An old head-man in Pondoland, when told of the Queen's death, thought for a moment, and then said, I shall look in the sky to-night for a new star. While on a visit to a farm at Juniper Green on Thursday afternoon, Robert Young, late manager of Hailes ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1901
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 812 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A TERRIBLE TALE

... A TERRIBLE TALE. -- Is a darkened garret, 'twixt earth and sky, (the night last week- -ten o'clock nigh-- A man sat groaning in wild despair, Wringing his hands and tearing his hair. A table, two chairs, and a looking glass, A book, a pips, and a bottle ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1903
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 198 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HAWIOK

... along be east anxious glances now and then op at overcast sky. Ti,. rain had entirely ceased but the wind blew gale, the bla aloud* Wadded wildly beton, it over the stoney sky ♦ . naety night Iha yoting men cold and raw and bleak for lay dear girl to ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1903
Newspaper: Jedburgh Gazette
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1636 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ATTENDANCE NOTICE. MR Aitkkn, of the District Institute, 8 Market Street, Galashiels, attends as under, and ..

... Cheat our poor soul* good Thou hast designed : Choose for us, ! Thy wisdom ia unerring, are fools and blind. So from our sky the night shall furl her shadows. And day pour gladness through hia golden gate*; Our rougu path leads to flower enamelled meadows ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1906
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 222 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS

... 'At a Casino: The night was scented like a peach, The balustrade was cold to touch: The words that linked us. each to each, Expressed too little—or too much! The music sobbed beneath the trees That soared into a purple sky; On nights so delicate.s these ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1909
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2243 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HAWICK RESIDENT WITHDRAWS NOTHING

... stars by night, and still undiscovered. That was the mole thought that dieturbed him for a time, until strange news came to him, and changed one* more the current of his life. On a hot and breathless night towards the end of May—too hot a night for the ...

Published: Friday 02 June 1911
Newspaper: Jedburgh Gazette
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2425 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOVING ECHOES

... like eangs of birds, Are for ever echoing. Look for the fragrant roses. Not for the thorns and weeds, For the crimson sky. when night ie nigh, And the golden sun recedes. Glietens the Starry Dipper. Sparkles the Milky Way. Through midnight trees the clear ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1911
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOCAL NEWS

... imprisoned for the rest of her natural life, and the request that a bill be passed so that there should be no clouds in the sky at night to obstruct the light of the moon when it was supposed to save the lighting of the street lamps, created hearty laughter ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1911
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1859 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ileathe

... the Spring Shall hist It Usmd with Winter's icy bars. But stiU •*•>. aid the t-kaid is always light. The sUrs are in the sky all night. And d»t js-st a nows they wbicli hide the liright Creen heart oi S|»ring. Nut all of life i* dreamel away In Summer ski>-a ...

THE OLD AtIH TREE

... That Ash so move will time befriend, in coo• shine or i 6 stares, No longer will its magic filter sweetly through the sky. List night, from 'monist the branches, carols floated through the air; Earth shuddered, ere beneath the stet., the landmark prostrate ...

Published: Friday 14 October 1921
Newspaper: Jedburgh Gazette
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1922 | Page: 1 | Tags: none