| 单词 | gillie |
| 例句 | A “gillie” or hunting guide, on the Highland estate of the Earl of Breadalbane, M’Diarmid’s first language was Gaelic, with English a distant second. An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Equally suitably, he was poor: “He was, I remember, the worst dressed of all the gillies,” J.Ss. recalled; he wore stockings “not very sound at the heel.” An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z We became purchasers of his work, and got him to read it to us—to the great amusement of his fellow gillies as well as ourselves. An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z "I am warning the city council that I am going to show up with my gillie suit, to remove these tyrants from office, in 2017," the post stated, according to police. Police make arrests in Craigslist threats against Laguna Beach City Council 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Instantly, a gillie incongruously in a flower-seller's dress, she was on her feet and walking a little ahead. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The word is, in this sense, used as synonymous with “gillie,” the faithful personal follower of a Highland chieftain, the man who stands at his master’s “haunch,” ready for any emergency. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z If the only Highlanders were the gillies and shepherds, there would be an end of bothersome tales of wrongs, rousing the sympathy of the public. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Every available stalker, forester and gillie is sent out before daylight to make an immense circle round the corries and mountains from which the deer are to be driven. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z And thus it fell out; for, when I descended the stairs, there was my lady Silver Heels parading before the pier-glass, and a gillie throwing open the doors of the dining-hall. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z My childer have my blood, And when they get their beards They will not be content to run As gillies to their herds! The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z He was the son of a Highland gillie, and had succeeded with incredible difficulty, as far as money was concerned, in gaining a degree at a Scotch University. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z Shall I gi'e the gillie a rap o'er the head wi' me stick; or beat a retreat like a wise general? Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge 2011-12-15T03:00:17.777Z A couple of gillies are waiting with the ponies. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z "Do you not know what is due to quality?" said I, sternly, to the gillie—a raw yokel scented with whiffs of the stables. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The English-speaking man we met on the road was the gentleman's gillie. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z The autumn winds, rushing, Stir a kilt of the queerest, Duke and gillies come crushing Where pleasure is nearest! Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z With only two gillies—Grant and Brown—for servants, and with assumed names ... it was more like something in a story than real life. Queen Victoria 2011-08-23T02:00:32.007Z Lord Lovat engaged himself actively in raising a corps of Highland gillies. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z In a rage I said grace before meat, then glared at the gillie. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z “God guide us—’tis at the foord above you,” cried the gillie, and, tired as we were, none of us were far behind him when he reached the stepping-stones. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z If they ever set foot upon the heather, it is in the capacity of gillies, for which service they receive excellent wages, and capital hands they are for looking after the comforts of the dogs. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z I am glad to know that the circus man who speaks of his patrons as "gillies," and who endeavors to obtain his wealth by fair or foul means, is becoming more and more rare. Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z The miller spoke to his gillies, and he said to them to do this, and they put them in four sacks. Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:15.367Z Good-natured old Finlayson has more than once said that he hopes we shall all come to the gillies' dance, and that it will give ourselves and our guests a chance of seeing some Highland customs. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z As we were speaking, a bearded gillie of gigantic stature came up from nowhere and promptly ordered us away, an order which we were very reluctantly compelled to obey. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England This splendid individual was attended by several "gillies," who were genuine specimens of the tribe. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z One day, while deerstalking, just as a magnificent shot came his way, the gillies were astonished to have the painter thrust the gun into their hands, and hastily take out his sketch-book. Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation "This is what I am thinking," said Conall, "since you are working every day for the king, you and your gillies could put myself and my sons into four sacks of bran." Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:15.367Z A good many of us come to Scotland most years, and have seen gillies and pipers before, but our good-natured neighbours certainly out-distance any one I know in their Highland sympathies. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z Three gillies, tadpole or small Frogs is considered a fair meal for each Frog. The Ranidae How to breed, feed and raise the edible frog Last night we went down to Abergeldie to the gillies' ball. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) For as the unsusceptible Laird expressed it, in the language of a gillie he had once met at a servants' dance in a Highland country-house, "Them wimmen spiles the ball!" Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The king's gillies came to seek the bran, and they took the four sacks with them, and they emptied them before the horses. Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:15.367Z Old Mr. Finlayson actually donned a kilt for the gillies' dance; young Finlayson also wore the national dress, and Thomas tells me that they have sported the Macdonald tartan, and wants to know why. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z Southward he went, and a single gillie behind him with his poet's dress in a bag upon his back, while Curithir himself was in a poor garb. Ancient Irish Poetry When he was angered, which was often enough, he gave his commands and breathed threats of punishment like any king; and his gillies trembled and crouched away from him like children before a hasty father. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) Last night on learning we were invited to this place, I searched for my gillies, but without success. A Prince of Good Fellows There is nothing about them to suggest the Swiss or Tyrolean mountaineers; rather they resemble the gillies of the Scotch Highlands. Our Southern Highlanders Three idiots that are in a bad guest-house: the chronic cough of an old hag, a brainless tartar of a girl, a hobgoblin of a gillie. The Triads of Ireland Three idiots of a bad guest-house: an old hag with a chronic cough; a brainless tartar of a girl; a hobgoblin of a gillie. Ancient Irish Poetry Of course, I suppose they all hail from the old Highland clan, but even there the line of demarcation between chieftain and gillie of the same name was broad as the border itself. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. The king, glancing over his shoulder, saw standing against the wall a row of brawny gillies, each two of whom supported a stretcher, whose use was at once apparent. A Prince of Good Fellows I looked about for the young lady and her gillies: there was never a sign of them. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) Take my p. 132blessing with ye, and a little bit of a gillie to cheer your hearts with when ye are weary. Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest He won a prize at a Sch�tzen-fest; and though he hunted chamois without much success, brought down more interesting game in the shape of the Styrian peasants, and in particular of his gillie, Joseph. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 At length he ordered one of his gillies to acquaint the wondrous inmate that Ewan Macpherson wished to hold some converse with him. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI But the gillie shook his shaggy uncovered head and patiently trod in their footsteps. A Prince of Good Fellows Even when we were in Scotland the gillie took you for some titled aristocrat, you were so lavish with your money. Lover or Friend Edward's whole array was soon one mass of confusion, and before it could recover itself a body of gillies, or camp-followers, appearing over a hill was taken for a fresh Scottish army. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII The Scottish gillie comes from the same root. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford I could not stand those barelegged Highland gillies. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter The gillie accompanied them for half an hour or more without making any protest, but at last he said to MacDonald that he thought it was time to return. A Prince of Good Fellows Five minutes later I was helping the gillie in the boat pull across to Raasay. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Lisle, however, called upon him to assist in an unpleasant operation which, when Nasmyth had killed a deer at home, had been judiciously left to the keepers or gillies. The Long Portage The gillie from a Scotch stream, and the bar-tender from a Yukon saloon walked side by side; and close to them a High Church curate in a captain's uniform grinned pleasantly and strolled on. No Man's Land The stalwart Norsk gillie who attends him found it a trifle too easy yesterday, for it gave way and let him into the river. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler At this the gillie drew from his belt a short black tube that looked like a practising chanter, which indeed it was, and on this he blew a few shrill notes. A Prince of Good Fellows The other two were a tattered gillie in the Macdonald tartan and a young woman of most engaging appearance, who was supported in the arms of Clanranald and his henchman. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Answer to the gillie: The Rommany churl and the Rommany girl love thieving and spaeing and lying and everything but honesty and truth.—390. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest He had scarcely spoken when his attention was called by Duncan to some object that the gillie had been regarding for some minutes back. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 My temporary gillie D. was by nature taciturn but always willing. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler "Master," cried the gillie, "I would like well to have this on my own hands," and he looked at me with great venom as he spoke. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn My eyes went to the face of the gillie and encountered the winsome smile of the Young Chevalier. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Had they been shepherds, or even the clever gillies that sometimes came to the kitchen of Ladyfield on nights of ceilidh or gossip, he would have felt himself their equal. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure The two of them, leaving the gillie to moor the little vessel that had brought them from Callernish, went silently toward the shore, and up the narrow road leading to the house. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 It was taken on a salmon fly bearing the troutsome name of Orange Dun, and it was a fancy pattern worked out as I understood, by Tarn Sligh, one of the veteran gillies of Tweedside. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler With cries, with tears, with names of affection, the gillie ran to his master, who I saw was not very seriously injured. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Something of this elation seized me—for I am of this latter class—as Murdoch and his gillies rowed me across the sound to Skye in the darkness of the early morning. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Kenneth pulled, laughing more than ever, as Scoodrach held on by his jacket; and just then the gillie managed to get a foot in a hole whence a stone had been dislodged. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai Alec’s trips to the Highlands of his beloved Scotland, and his excursions with the experienced gillie there, stood him in good service here. Three Boys in the Wild North Land You step ashore to finish conclusions with your fish, and when your gaffsman is a village worthy who leaves his ordinary occupations to gillie the stranger, accidents are not uncommon. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler Before those eight days had elapsed, Rob Roy had assembled his gillies, had followed his creditor into Argyleshire, had met him, nevertheless, in Strathfillan, and had carried him prisoner to an inn. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. But he was called away, and he left me with the gillie. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 “But she shall not go pelow now,” said the young gillie, looking down at the smooth, glassy current. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai "Hoo are ye, gillie?" said the burly Scot in my ear. Lords of the North The gillie did not take up the gaff now, and my hopes were dashed, for it meant that he had recognised a kelt, which must be tailed. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler The two boys and the gillie, finding the eagles' attention diverted from them, made haste to return to the valley, glad to have escaped without injury. Chatterbox, 1905. When the major was called aside by one of his gillies a moment later, Macdonald expressed his trust of the other in the old Scotch saying, “Yon’s a man to ride the water wi’, Kenneth.” A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 “Well?” came from close by, and the young gillie showed himself, with his face half averted. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai “Well,” the other went on, “they were beating a cover for roe, and the gillie suggested a particular pass, as the most likely to get a shot at what he called a ‘tod.’ Sword and Gown A Novel Our gillie, who met us at Stanley station, admitted this; yes, but 2 ft. less of water would warrant better confidence. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler No gillie would go within a mile of it, even in bright sunshine. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Three shag-headed gillies in the tattered Cameron tartan dragged an innkeeper from his taproom and set him down squat on the causeway. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 “Yes; and I can see where the nest is,” cried the young gillie. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai He put it down on the stand, by the miniature, under the gillies and lupins. John Ward, Preacher On one hunting excursion, Landseer was stationed on a runway, gun in hand, with a gillie in attendance. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters I felt one stinging blow on my face; then, bleeding and helpless, I was kicked down the steps into the snow p. 81from which I was picked up, half stunned, by one of the gillies. Masques & Phases She came here with a shag-headed gillie of a servant, under the protection of a Captain Macdonald who is a very fine figure of a man. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 And besides, he had the whole of the young gillie’s weight to bear, while his foothold was exceedingly insecure. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai A gillie, who had no English, was lying at his right hand, and far out at sea a string of squattering geese were slowly drifting shorewards with the wind. The Half-Hearted Merton took the most intelligent of the gillies aside. The Disentanglers The Colonel met me at the station in the uniform of the 69th, attended by two gillies holding torches. Masques & Phases He entered the Queen's service at Balmoral, became later a gillie to the Prince Consort, and in 1851 the Queen's personal outdoor attendant. Queen Victoria Treat him as you would any other visitor, but you are not his gillie. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai Before his camp was awake, of a morning, he would make a bowl of black coffee, shoulder his rifle, and start off, with a couple of bush-boys for gillies. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Mr. Macrae agreed, and himself went in the boat, which was presently unmoored, and pulled by two gillies across the loch, that ran like a river with the outgoing tide. The Disentanglers The class of human p. 57beings known as caddies are the offspring of golf, and have peculiar traits which distinguish them from the professional cricketer, the waterman, the keeper, the gillie, and all other professionals. Lost Leaders "Chist wait," Roderick said, with much simplicity; and then he and the gillie withdrew a little way down the peat-hag, so that they might have their luncheon and a cautious whispering in Gaelic by themselves. Prince Fortunatus “Is—is he killed?” faltered Max, whose lips formed the question he had been about to ask before he saw the gillie lying there. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai Lord George had no pipers to sound the recall; they had flung their pipes to their gillies and gone in with the claymore. A Short History of Scotland He sent for Benson, bade him, with some gillies, carry the prisoner into the dungeon of the old castle, loose his bonds, place food before him, and leave him in charge of the stalker. The Disentanglers Before they are fourteen, they have a rod on a salmon river, a gun on a moor, horses and p. 88yachts, and boats at their will, with keepers and gillies to do their bidding. Lost Leaders He had saturated his mind with gillies' stories of capital shots who had completely lost their nerve on first catching sight of a stag. Prince Fortunatus There was utter silence in the room for a few minutes, and then the young gillie was ushered in. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai "Well, I'm not afraid of anything, from ghosts to—gillies!" Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays Behind them the gillies, at a respectful distance, were carrying the rods and the fish. The Disentanglers "Then," said he, "I must go down and get my gillie, and show him his future home." Macleod of Dare You say you would almost rather be a gillie in charge of dogs and ponies. Prince Fortunatus Guardians, gillies, carters, porters and canoemen live in whole or in part, on providing fishing and shooting. Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador Supplement to an Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. Before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation in January, 1911 On the other hand, Colonials adopt more the tactics of a Scotch gillie in a deer forest, whose object is to see, but not to be seen. With Rimington But no such vessel had been seen by shepherd, fisher, keeper, or gillie. The Disentanglers As for the new gillie, he resembled nothing so much as a limp bunch of clothes, as Macleod's men, wondering not a little, caught him up and passed him astern. Macleod of Dare But the farther they went, the more amazed became Roderick and the gillie; there was no sign of the beast that both of them declared could not have run a couple of hundred yards. Prince Fortunatus Keep every one of you his place, let neither warrior nor gillie address him. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland We had not gone very far when we met a disconsolate sportsman, accompanied by his gillies and dogs, who was retreating to the inn which he had left early in the morning. From John O'Groats to Land's End ‘Let us walk a little way—too many gillies and people loafing about here.’ The Disentanglers Beside the dog, sitting on a campstool, and wrapped round with a tartan plaid, was the person whom Macleod had doubtless referred to as his gillie. Macleod of Dare "I did everything right? and as for you, no one will tell me that the best gillie in Ross-shire did anything wrong; so we have nothing to reproach ourselves with, Robert, have we?" Prince Fortunatus And the gillie that was with him told the tale of the adventure. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland Then the sound of the instrument ceased save for the drone of the two bottom strings, and Sinfi's voice leapt out and I heard the words of what she called the Welsh dukkering gillie. Aylwin Meanwhile Blake was carried by four gillies towards the Castle, the men talking low to each other in Gaelic. The Disentanglers Macleod's gillie rose—or, rather, got down—from the campstool, and showed himself to be a miserable, emaciated child of ten or eleven, with a perfectly colorless face, frightened gray eyes, and starved white hands. Macleod of Dare All the rest of her labor was expended for nothing; so finally she had to reel up and make her way ashore, where she surrendered her rod to the old gillie. Prince Fortunatus "Then I am a horseman in thy service, Finn," said the gillie. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland But the air she played was not the air of the song she called the 'Welsh dukkerin' gillie' which I had heard by Beddgelert. Aylwin That lazy old graybeard, the lord of Jura, may bring his own gillies with him the next time he comes to the hunting in Bute. The Thirsty Sword He drove to the stream, picked up an old gillie named Campbell, and then went on towards the spot where he meant to begin angling. Cock Lane and Common-Sense So Roderick picked up the dead birds and put them on a conspicuous stone, at the same time signalling to the gillie with the pony, who was slowly coming up. Prince Fortunatus "By Heaven and Earth," said the gillie, "that I never will, for I have no horseboy, and I will do no horseboy's work." The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland He followed later, and was the stranger seen by my gillie’s father. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts "Peaceful hills," that's his patter, my pippin; no gillies, no luncheons, no game! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890 The fire-raising, however, was an excessively barbaric method of getting him to leave the parish, and the view justified the indignation of the gillie. Cock Lane and Common-Sense If he missed, then he missed; why should he care what foresters and gillies thought of him? Prince Fortunatus I have never seen thee do horseboy's service even to far better men than this gillie. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland Fishing in Sutherland, I had a charming companion in the gillie. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts "Yes, it is some business," George Lane replied, "but first there will be a gillie shoon." O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 The old gillie, much excited, declared that the horse had foreseen this event in the morning, and had, consequently, shied. Cock Lane and Common-Sense The English ran ninety miles from Bannockburn, seared by the "gillies" and the baggage-wagons. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 So with downcast head and despondent looks the big gillie shambled slowly away until he had passed out of view of the Fianna, behind the shoulder of the hill. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland The stag had been loaded up and the gillies were returning. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Smile, bird of my heart," she entreated, "for we are to have a gillie shoon. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 He won a prize at a Schutzen-fest; and though he hunted chamois without much success, brought down more interesting game in the shape of the Styrian peasants, and in particular of his gillie, Joseph. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin He was talking Gaelic this time—good Gaelic it sounded, and in that knot of idlers he would have passed for the ordinariest kind of gillie. Mr. Standfast Soon there came in a gillie whose business it was to see to the fires, and he kindled the fire for Iubdan, throwing on it a woodbine together with divers other sorts of timber. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland In the wake of the gillies we descended the Correi road into a glen all swimming with dim purple shadows. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies A gillie shoon has its counterpart in the English word "singsong," as it is beginning to be used now, with this exception: Romanys have few "fixed" songs. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 I was my own stalker, taking a couple of gillies for the ponies, but finding the deer for myself - always the most difficult part of the sport - and stalking them for myself. Tracks of a Rolling Stone The gillies duly covered me, and I did not like the look of their wavering barrels. Mr. Standfast She saw from there the returning party of shooters and gillies winding its way slowly through the heather, following a burden carried on a stretcher of fir boughs. The White People The lumpish hill pony with its deer-saddle had gone up the Correi in a gillie's charge while we followed at leisure, picking our way among the loose granite rocks and the patches of wet bogland. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies When he was angered, which was often enough, he gave his commands and breathed threats of punishment like any, king; and his gillies trembled and crouched away from him like children before a hasty father. Kidnapped I think the gillies on either side would have spoilt the others' sport, could they have done so with impunity. Tracks of a Rolling Stone He looked an ordinary countryman, wearing badly cut, baggy knickerbockers of the kind that gillies affect. Mr. Standfast A footnote annexed to the humble name almost always contains a short biography of the individual, whether wardrobe-maid, groom, or gillie. Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Blanche and Horatio and a smaller boy, called Ernest, who was dressed like a gillie, and had all the wildness of a young Highlander, were to walk, with the occasional charity of a lift. The Golden Calf We intended to send back for any game we might shoot, so only one old gillie accompanied me. The Heavenly Twins From this gillie I learned, in general, that the banishment of the dault an neigh dheil, or foster child of the white doe, was again brought under consideration of the tribe. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day The king's gillies came to seek the bran, and they took the five sacks with them, and they emptied them before the horses. Celtic Fairy Tales "He uses the attendance of a noble Scottish gentleman with as little ceremony as I would that of a gillie from Glen Isla." Quentin Durward She held him away from her, to show him to her husband—a thin fair-haired boy of eleven, in a gray highland kilt and jacket, like a gillie—fresh rosy cheeks, bright blue eyes. The Golden Calf Probably he never saw the stag—it was behind him; and we—the gillie and I—neither of us saw anything else. The Heavenly Twins Let us back to the camp, and send our gillies for the venison. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day "This is what I am thinking," said Conall, "since you are working every day for the king, you and your gillies could put myself and my sons into five sacks of bran." Celtic Fairy Tales "I don't clearly know what a gillie is," he said, in answer to one of Frank's explanations. The Eustace Diamonds Instead of firing at it, he thrust his gun into a gillie's hands, crying: "Hold that! hold that!" and whipping out his pencil and pad he began to sketch the stag. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Cluny heard the warning and escaped, while the innocence of the crafty gillie was so well feigned, that he was not even punished. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles He was a Highland gillie, of simple Highland ways and words but "A man's a man for a' that." Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood The miller spoke to his gillies, and he said to them to do this, and they put them in five sacks. Celtic Fairy Tales The beggar wore kilts!—and the McKay tartan—and, by jinks, if his gillie wasn't rigged in shepherd's plaid!—and him with his Yankee passport and his gillie with a bag of ready-made rods. In Secret Whereupon the gillies were disgusted that he should miss so fine a shot, and they said something to each other in Gaelic, which Sir Edwin must have understood, for he became very angry. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Her coffin was buried in flowers, many of them the plain flowers she loved, the gillies and stock and verbena, and even the sweet, sober wall-flowers that were somehow like herself. Sisters The gladiolas, canterbury bells, gillie flowers and fox gloves grow as prim as in a conservative English garden. Vignettes of San Francisco The mountains rise glorious in the morning sun; no foot of man, save mine and my gillies' shall tread them. The Woman Who Did In vain he trotted, signalling in vain among the rout of barekneed gillies smuggling implements of music through Trinity gates. Ulysses Gamekeepers were provided and gillies,—and, in a moderate quantity, game. The Duke's Children She grazes with my goats but none of my gillies can bring her into my goat-house. The King of Ireland's Son Four millions in a gun barrel; hoax was written all over the face of it, and yet he had been as unsuspicious as a Highland gillie. The Puppet Crown Finally, for a double wage, I got an old gillie with a cart to bring me as far on the way as the highroad ran. The Sleuth of St. James's Square This was procured," he would say, "by my dear old gillie Angus out of the bird's very nest. The Country House "I'll be takin' some bit things that yon Whistlecrankie left," said the gillie gravely, with a stolid glance around the room. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's Alas for the knot that breaks, and for the iron that bends; for the lost landing-net, and the gillie with the gaff that scrapes the fish! Introduction to the Compleat Angler The Central Office must be bughouse to send you out looking like such a gillie. Strictly business: more stories of the four million And yet from the moment I got down from the gillie's cart I seemed drawn under a persisting surveillance. The Sleuth of St. James's Square From the jargon, therefore, of the Highland gillies, I pass to the character of their Chief. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since The gillie slid a quick glance towards the door, but the consul was before him. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's How well one remembers deserting the gardener, and already appreciating the joys of having no gillie nor attendant, of being “alone with ourselves and the goddess of fishing”! Angling Sketches Accordingly we cast lots, and the lot fell upon the youngest, and I went forth with a tall, red-legged gillie, to try for my first salmon. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness With only two gillies—Grant and Brown—for servants, and with assumed names. Queen Victoria One would like to act as gillie to those lordly amateurs. Angling Sketches The consul had his back towards him, but, looking in the glass of the dressing-table, he saw that the gillie was stealthily watching him. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's Our gillie put on for us big bright sea-trout flies—nobody fishes there for yellow trout; but, in our inexperience, small “brownies” were all we caught. Angling Sketches The gillie handled the big rod as if it had been a fairy's wand, but to me it was like a giant's spear. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness I always disliked the attendance of a gillie. Angling Sketches There have been anglers who, when the salmon was once on, handed him over to the gillie to play and land. Angling Sketches He opened it impatiently to a tall gillie, who instantly strode into the room. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's A fire had also been seen blazing on an opposite height, and when some of the gillies went to the spot, “there was no fire to be seen.” Angling Sketches He had hoped to be engaged as a gillie by the shooting party, but had been disappointed. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness It was a fine sight to see him exhibiting the tiny American trout-rod, tied with silk ribbons in its delicate case, to the other gillies and exulting over them. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness It was the mercy of Providence that preserved the gillie's life. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness |
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