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Published: Friday 03 April 1840
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3582 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PARLIAMENT

... most men shrink from, and it is lamentable to see a nobleman, possessing many excellent qualities a landlord, stoop to pick up such garbage. His Grace in reality injures the cause of the Protectionists by his intemperate advocacy of it. What will the Lords ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1846
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2016 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR O'CONNELL AND MRS MORIARTV

... ajiolle. Mao! Wiaba, by gar; that baoga Banagber. Why yoo potato-faced pippia-aoerxrr, when did Madegaacur mookey lik* yoa pick op cooogb of emumoa Chriaiiao decency to bide yoar Kerry bmgae.’ •• Eeey. oow—eeey, now.' cried O'Cooeell with ■mpertureble ...

Published: Friday 22 September 1848
Newspaper: Nairnshire Mirror
County: Nairn, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2454 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

INVERNESS, OCTOBER 30. THE QUARTERLY, INVESTIGATOR, AND « HIGHLAND PURITANISM. TO THB EDITOR OF THE INVERNESS ..

... who could stoop to print a compilation of gossip, and to vilify his former compatriots and coreligionists with the gathered garbage of a province. The first charge referred to by your Correspondent can scarcely have been meant by him as among the w things ...

Published: Thursday 30 October 1851
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2875 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HOME NEWS

... preserved meat, duly accepted and passed the naval surveyors of stores for the use of tbe fleet, is one mass of putrified garbage—the opening of the cases being almost enough to breed a pestilence. Of 2707 canisters of prepared meat opened, only 197 have ...

Published: Thursday 22 January 1852
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1272 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

John O'Groat Journal

... in- habitants of our large towns remember. But a true militia—or an appeal to the men of the na- tion—should consist of the picked men, not of the refuse. The natural first division of the militia consists of tlhe grown son of every fa- mily, or the young ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2952 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE NAIRNSHIRE TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1856

... beaten with the most unnatural and brutal severity. The poor liitle fellow had been often seen by the neighbours picking up and eating garbage to satisfy his hunger, and even going to the pigs’-trongh, and devouring eagerly such refuse as the pigs had not ...

grtofi

... the door, found him upstairs chained the leg staple in the wall. was in the habit of wandering about picking up herring bones from the gutters, garbage, and other refuse from ash-piis, and devouring them greedily. The body presented one of the most harrowing ...

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE AMERICAN PRESS

... fettered by the unfortunate necessity of adhering ouly to what is true, and rejecting at once the half-romantic, half scandalous garbage with which, in the way of private anecdotes of the Prince, some of the American journals are just now entertaining their readers ...

Published: Thursday 27 September 1860
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 778 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE PEREGRINE FALCON

... midst. The crows first took flight, and the left alone, rose slowly and took its own way. The crows were waiting to pick up any garbage their nobler companion would leave. Any one with a gun could easily have shot this bird either before or after it Tuse ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 1861
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2199 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank case, announced in your last number, was fully expected here. The old proverb that corbies will not pick out corbiee een has doubtless its application on the judicial bench as well as elsewhere, and the Court was asked to declare ...

THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND

... mend shoes both for himself and the family, or beat and kuock hemp or flax, or pick and stamp apples or crabs for cider or vinegar, or else grind malt on the querns, pick candles, rushes, or do some husbandly office till it be fully eight o’clock. Then ...