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...town of Hamilton joke that they are afraid of being the dummy when playing Bridge, for fear of being murdered. Meanwhile, Special Investigator Bonnie Dundee demands a re-enactment of the 'death hand' to try and find out why, and how, the victim was killed during a high society Bridge party. (Summary by Gesine)...

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...paigned vigorously against excessive drinking, appearing in pubs and bars to give edifying poems and speeches. These were very popular, the people of Dundee possibly recognising that McGonagall was so giftedly bad he backed unwittingly into genius....

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...ntry Of cold mechanic battle do enslave. Oh! for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave! Like conquest would the ... ... Book at hand. NOTE VII. P AGE 59; line 11.—“Oh! for a single hour of that Dundee.” See an anecdote related in Mr. Scott’s Border Minstrelsy. NOTE VII...

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...er and crew abbreviated in sailor fashion into The Rights. The hard-headed Dundee owner was a staunch admirer of Thomas Paine whose book in rejoinder ... ...e. In christening his vessel after the title of Paine’s volume, the man of Dundee was something like his contemporary shipowner, Stephen Girard of Phi...

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...e can’t have tomfoolery of this kind. Where does the thing come from?’ “ ‘From Dundee,’ I answered, glancing at the postmark. “ ‘Some preposterous pra... ...e postmarks of those letters?” “The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the third from London.” “From East London. What do you dedu... ... of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and its fulfillment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. Does that suggest anything?... ...heir mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a steamer they would have ... ...knew that the ship must have an American origin.” “What then?” “I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the bark Lone Star was there in J...

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... on board his ship after an eighteen months’ voyage. It was in the dock in Dundee, where we had brought a full cargo of jute from Calcutta. We had bee... ...a deep-water man on his feet pretty well night and day. When we arrived in Dundee, Mrs. B- was already there, waiting to take him home. We travelled u...

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...f Gardiner’s regiment of dragoons, which he must join in their quarters at Dundee in Scotland, in the course of a month. Sir Everard Waverley received... ...ack, then the general mode of travelling, to Edinburgh, and from thence to Dundee, a seaport on the eastern coast of Angus-shire, where his regi- ment... ...underson leaks out the old Chateau Margaux, which I sent from Bourdeaux to Dundee in the year 1713.’ Rose tripped off demurely enough till she turned ... ...ade of warmer affection. I ought to have said that Edward, when he sent to Dundee for the books before mentioned, had applied for, and received permis... ...ce of Clan Gillean, the fearless and free, Remember Glenlivat, Harlaw, and Dundee! Let the clan of grey Fingon, whose offspring has given Such heroes ... ...soldiers by the name of Wily Will, had made frequent visits to the town of Dundee. He appeared to possess plenty of money, sold his commodities very c... ...discover to be possessed of the captain’s confidence. His first journey to Dundee, the town where the regiment was quartered, undeceived him in his or...

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...esi- tate to name as the third, John Graeme, of Claverhouse, Vis- count of Dundee, whose heroic death, in the arms of victory, may be allowed to cance... ...ss of that ilk, David Arnot of that ilk, and Mr. John Wedderburn, vicar of Dundee; the yeomen, John Thomson, in Leith, Steven T aburner, with a piper,...

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... that it was mere child’s play. I have heard him say that he could see the Dundee people out, any day, and walk home afterwards without staggering; an... ...ple out, any day, and walk home afterwards without staggering; and yet the Dundee people have as strong heads and as strong punch, gentlemen, as you a... ...kens 271 meet with, between the poles. I have heard of a Glasgow man and a Dundee man drinking against each other for fif teen hours at a sitting. Th...

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...eath.’ 85 CHARLOTTE M YONGE ‘I am sorry you have nothing to say to bonnie Dundee,’ said Elizabeth, ‘for really, between the Whiggery and stu- pidity ...

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...ny save she, the poor man’s mare, renowned in song, that died A mile aboon Dundee. [Alluding, as all Scotsmen know, to the humorous old song:— ‘The au... ...dead, The puir man’s mare’s dead, The auld man’s mare’s dead, A mile aboon Dundee.’] But credit me, Darsie, the sigh which escaped me, concerned thee ... ...hamber, bewailing the downfall of the cause, and wishing for the bullet of Dundee or the axe of Balmerino.’ ‘A strange delusion,’ said Darsie; ‘and it...

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...rs’ hot pick les, Harvey’s Sauce, Doctor Kitchener’s Zest, Anchovy Paste, Dundee Marmalade, and the whole stock of luxurious helps to appetite, were ...

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...upplying by velocity the want of strength, he moved suddenly from Perth to Dundee, and being refused admission into that town, fell northward upon Abe...

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...ch made of it a full cabin. Three were solid merchants out of Leith, Kirkcaldy, and Dundee, all engaged in the same ad- venture into High Germany. One...

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...other old friend, the late George Constable, Esq. of Wallace-Craigie, near Dundee, whom I have already intro- duced to my reader as the original Antiq...

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... have appeared, indeed, for a moment at the wings of history: a skipper of Dundee who smuggled over some Jacobite big- wig at the time of the ‘Fifteen... ...cobite big- wig at the time of the ‘Fifteen, and was afterwards drowned in Dundee harbour while going on board his ship. With this exception, the gene... ...two – whalers, I suppose, or coast- ers – and to have been a member of the Dundee Trinity House, whatever that implies. On his death the widow re- mai... ... July. ‘I have been occupied to-day at the harbour of New- port, opposite Dundee, and am this far on my way to Arbroath. You may tell the boys that I... ...The en- campment is on the Fife side of the Tay, immediately op- posite to Dundee. From the door of the tent you command the most beautiful view of th... ...e of the relations of George Dall, a young man who had been impressed near Dundee in the month of February last; a dispute had arisen between the magi... ...time, the poor lad was detained, and ultimately committed to the prison of Dundee, to remain until the question should be tried before the Court of Se... ...fly these:- He had gone to see some of his friends in the neighbourhood of Dundee, in winter, while the works were suspended, having got leave of abse...

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...izzy. Then the cavalry came up, to the beautiful cavalry canter of “Bonnie Dundee,” and Vixen cocked her ear where she sat on the dog-cart. The second... ...’s sweeter than “Stables” or “Water” to me— The Cavalry Canter of “Bonnie Dundee”! Then feed us and break us and handle and groom, And give us good... ...unch us in column of squadron and see The way of the war-horse to “Bonnie Dundee”! Screw-Gun Mules As me and my companions were scrambling up a hill...

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...amp at peril of the sea — The white wall-sided war-ships or the whalers of Dundee! Come up, come in from Eastward, from the guardports of the Morn! Be... ... Gothavn ‘speckshioner — (He that led the flinching in the fleets of fair Dundee): “Oh, the ice-blink white and near, And the bowhead breaching c...

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...istinguish 28 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin ‘God save the Queen’ from ‘Bonnie Dundee’; and now, to the chanting of the mob, he amazed his family by learn... ...ng No. IV. of the appendix to the Report presented by the Committee to the Dundee Meeting of 1867. No other de- termination, so far as I know, of this...

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...ted the slogan of the Elliots; I was present when a skipper, ply- ing from Dundee, smuggled Jacobites to France after the ’15; I was in a West India m...

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...g out, “See my brave English sailors!” One of Charles’s old officers, Lord Dundee, raised an army of Scots in James’s favor, but he was killed just as...

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...at a pinch! I have fought as hard under John Churchill as ever I did under Dundee or the Duke of Berwick.” “I verily believe you, Craigie,” said the l...