| 单词 | Lowlander |
| 例句 | There is a Lowlander route between London and Glasgow and Edinburgh, and a Highlander route to Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William. Caledonian Sleeper rail service to be nationalised 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z For some Scottish Lowlanders who saw the Gaelic-speaking Highlands as a barbarous backwater, the kilt had been regarded as the primitive dress of mountain thieves. How the king's visit saw kilts become Scotland's national dress 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Shirley Laska, a sociologist who studied Louisiana disasters at the University of New Orleans and co-founded the Lowlander Center, said parish leaders, emergency managers and citizens did the right thing before the storm. A wobble, luck and preparations lessened Laura’s devastation 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z There are 484 rooms available, initially on the Lowlander route between London and Glasgow/Edinburgh. New Caledonian Sleeper is three hours late 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z In addition, travellers will be able to board the Lowlander sleeper at 10pm – far earlier than they can at present – even though the train is not scheduled to depart until almost midnight. Haggis, whisky ... double beds: the new romance of the sleeper train 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z There will be 484 rooms available, initially on the Lowlander route between London and Glasgow/Edinburgh. Sleeper trains 'are hotels on wheels' 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Lowlanders with close ties to India, fearing the changes would reduce their political clout, protested by blockading the southern border. Still shaking 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In a world full of retro games, Lowlander is so retro that it’s nearly analog. The 5 Best iPhone Games To Play This Week 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Even in a historical sense the Highlanders were a separate people from the Lowlanders, with whom, during many centuries, they shared nothing in common. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z They are thriftless and good-for-nothing, Lowlanders on the steamer assured us. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Sir John Gladstone was a pure Scotsman, a Lowlander by birth and descent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z My progress would, however, have been impossible, if Cecil's dialect had been as perplexing to me as that of the Lowlanders of her own rank. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Scotsmen—Highlanders and Lowlanders—have furnished Mr. Punch with many of his happiest jokes. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z The fiery spirit of the Gael and the dogged endurance of the Lowlander had added new glory to the fighting fame of Scotland. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z She was, we learned afterwards, Mrs.—or Mistress, as Lowlanders on board called her—Thomas. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Provost Robertson belonged to the Clan Donachie, and by this marriage the robust and business-like qualities of the Lowlander were blended with the poetic imagination, the sensibility and fire of the Gael. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z In the first bay lay two bodies—a Lowlander and a Turk. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z His Highland types are perhaps somewhat closer to the life than his Lowlanders, but all are invariably touched off with the kindliest humour, and never in any way burlesqued. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z Enfilading fire from the village of Auchy streamed down upon the Lowlanders on the left, and took a heavy toll of them as they advanced. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z "The Macphersons, Macgregors, and all, are not much better than savages," added the serjeant; who, being a Lowlander, felt that contempt for the Highlanders so common amongst the more southern inhabitants of Scotland. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 He reached an opening among the bushes, and saw in the imperfect light the old robust Lowlander of the previous fray attacked by two men armed with bludgeons, and defending himself manfully with his staff. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 I however, am supposed to be a Lowlander, and therefore cautious. A Prince of Good Fellows All the vast parish attended his funeral—Lowlanders and Highlanders in their own garb of grief. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) No one would thus explain such words as Lowlander and Borderer applied to the people of the Cheviot Hills. The Ethnology of the British Islands I was then set in his place, my feet tied under the horse’s belly, and we set forth under the guidance of the Lowlander. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) I myself was the only genuine Lowlander of our party. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. During his brief acquaintance MacLeod had but thinly veiled his dislike of the Lowlander, who had always ventured to speak with him in a free and easy manner to which he was unaccustomed. A Prince of Good Fellows But from his compatriot in the South the Lowlander stands consciously apart. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 We are Lowlanders of Scotland, following a Covenanting captain up into the hills to hold a meeting out of the reach of persecuting troopers. Shirley In conversation and publicly I have often given myself the pleasure of recommending it, alike to Highlander and Lowlander. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The first and cardinal principle laid down was that all who hailed from the Oa must wage internecine war upon the Flats and must despise and ignore all English and Lowlanders. The Silver Maple Their warlike habits were fostered by the rugged and almost inaccessible character of the country, which prevented the Lowlanders from retaliating upon them, and enabled them also to resist the royal authority. Lady of the Lake The fact remains: in spite of the difference of blood and language, the Lowlander feels himself the sentimental countryman of the Highlander. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 In this regiment were more Lowlanders, than in any other of the same description raised during that period. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America One feature of Miss Frere's book which does honour to her fine sympathy, but which is not ethnologically justifiable, is the persistent attempt to draw a sharp racial distinction between Highlander and Lowlander. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Big Malcolm and Store Thompson, though the latter was a Lowlander, had been fast friends ever since they had come to Canada. The Silver Maple The war dragged after these terrible sieges and both sides would gladly have seen it ended; but the Lowlanders were in no temper to accept half measures. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. The Highlanders were parted by a sharp line of division from the Lowlanders, while within the Lowlands themselves feudalism overmastered the Crown. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 It announced that the Highland clans, on whom the Lowlanders had been relying, had made a separate peace with the enemy and had gone home. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North A century ago Shetland was almost an unknown land to the Lowlanders of Scotland. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Everything about the place was very neat; for Kirsty's mother was a Lowlander and one of the most particular of that great race of housekeepers. The Silver Maple The Duke of Alva, proud soldier that he was, did not estimate the strength of the Lowlanders at its proper value. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Lowlanders and Highlanders quickly got out of the way before us and gave us the crown of the causeway. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn First, she sent messengers in every direction to gather assistance for an immediate attack on the Lowlanders, in order to effect the rescue of her husband. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North What is certain, is that there is a very pronounced strain of Celtic blood coursing through the veins of the average Scotch Lowlander. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland What caused the trouble between the Highlanders and the Lowlanders? Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College The Reverend Frank was a genial Lowlander of the muscular type. Hunted and Harried He rode after us with his Lowlanders, protesting, threatening, cajoling in vain. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Andrew Fairservice had, of course, vanished at the very first symptoms of a storm, but the Lowlander, disappointed of an antagonist, drew honourably off and took no share in the fight. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North If you or I, dear Lowlander, should stand on the outside of the crowd, and appear more curious than devout, we should certainly be alluded to in the sermon as those wicked people. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland So saying the stout Lowlander seized his little English friend by the arm and dragged him towards the town of canvas which had within a few weeks sprung up like mushrooms among the sandhills. The Settler and the Savage When his characters were Scots, Lowlanders or Highlanders, it seems to me that their style has no rival except in the talk of Sir Walter's countrymen. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) I expressed some doubt about the steadfastness of the Lowlanders, and M'Iver was in sad agreement with me. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn In the fight, the Lowlanders were cut off to the last man, and their leader fell to my ancestor's sword. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North A Lowlander, taking a week's sail on one of Macbrayne's cargo-boats stepped ashore, on Sunday morning, at a remote insular port, to attend church, as was fit and proper. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The latter are the Highlanders, while the Singhalese are the Lowlanders of Ceylon. My First Voyage to Southern Seas On the contrary, if I held a militia command again, I should be very glad, as an Englishman, that it should consist of a very fair proportion of Highlanders and of Lowlanders. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 In a cloud of dust due to their sweeping trains, they had swooped down like the gay Hieland folk they were, and captured the admiration and imitation of the slower, prosaic Lowlander. The Madigans The young laird had stepped back hurriedly to load his weapon, when he suddenly saw a head appear above the battlements; and next moment a fierce Lowlander sprang on to the terrace. Boycotted And Other Stories The Lowlanders, more especially, must have starved in a country that had not the means of supporting its own inhabitants, and of which they knew neither the roads nor the language. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. In those days, no Lowlanders, nor any English drovers, had the audacity to enter the Highlands. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Oh, they had plenty left; and seriously, dad, without joking, you know, what better could a Presbyterian Lowlander do than raise good beef for Highland gentlemen? Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers The Lowlanders and East Anglians did this in great style the next morning, and spent the rest of that and the following day consolidating the gains and preparing for the big "show" on the 19th. With Our Army in Palestine We have ourselves seen more of it, perhaps, than any other Lowlander; and had traversed many of its vast glens and moors, before we found our way to the southern solitude of Loch Ericht. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 A superstition long lingered in the Scottish Highlands, that it was unlucky for a clansman to learn any handicraft engaged in by Lowlanders. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The Luineag, or favourite carol of the Highland milkmaid, is a class of songs entirely lyrical, and which seldom fails to please the taste of the Lowlander. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century There are a good many modern Christians of the same mind, Miss Carnegie, and I don't think our poor Highlanders are worse than Lowlanders; but Catholic or Protestant, they are all subject to the gloom. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers When it was found that no headway could be made in the centre the Lowlanders were ordered to cease their heroic attempts, which they did most unwillingly. With Our Army in Palestine Not understanding this, the Lowlanders in the west and south say, “Up and waur them a’,” &c. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Eight thousand of these savages were now let loose on the disobedient Lowlanders. Claverhouse The Lowlanders were cut off to a man, and their chief fell the last, covered with wounds, by the sword of my ancestor. Strange Pages from Family Papers Now it was a Lowlander from Teviotdale that saw the man, and the crofters were delighted. The Disentanglers Had Robert Gordon been a Highlander instead of a Lowlander; had he been a Ross-shire crofter instead of a small laird in Wigtown, he would have been one of the foremost of the well-known ‘men.’ Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Had the clansmen been victorious there would certainly have been a Celtic revival; but this was not the danger most dreaded by the victorious Lowlanders. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) For on the right matters had fared rather better with the Lowlanders. Claverhouse The hatred of Campbells and Stuarts, of Lowlander and Highlander, Loyalist and Jacobite, is intense throughout the record of those days. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays When we came here first, to look round, we had only horses hired from Edinburgh, and a Lowlander—mark you, a Lowlander—to drive. The Disentanglers He pointed out that Lowlanders paid blackmail for protection to Highland raiders, and that independent companies of Highlanders, paid by Government, had been useful, but were broken up in 1717. A Short History of Scotland But any such abrupt racial division as Mr. Freeman drew between the true Scots and the Scottish Lowlanders stands much in need of proof. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) The inhabitants of the northern part of Scotland are called Highlanders; those of the southern part, Lowlanders. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader "Give me Peebles for pleasure," said the loyal Lowlander home from a fortnight's jaunt in Paris. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 14, 1892 Thus it happened that, instead of falling sword in hand on the little party of Lowlanders, the dismayed clansmen began to slip away, and Ringan's friends succeeded in getting their sorely wounded comrade into safety. Stories of the Border Marches Argyll, who sailed from Holland on May 2, had a council of Lowlanders who thwarted him. A Short History of Scotland Lowlanders, Highlanders, and Islesmen had alike rallied round his banner; once again we find the "true Scots leagued", not "with", but against "the Saxons farther off". An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) I was then set in his place, my feet tied under the horse's belly, and we set forth under the guidance of the Lowlander. David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona These Lowlanders of Saxon descent may well have inherited the rites from the Celts who preceded them in the possession of the south country. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul In courage my wild men are more than a match for the Lowlanders. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War "It must", said the old woman—"that is, if the Lowlander is mad enough to carry the knife." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 He describes how David I changed the Lowlanders into civilized men, but never hints that he did so by introducing Englishmen. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) "A tall strong lad of about eighteen," I quoted, "speaks like a Lowlander, and has no beard." David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Few Lowlanders had ever penetrated them,—scarcely an Englishman. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 But they can at least be caught to charge in line, and their broad claymores may be trusted to hew a way for them through the lines of the Lowlanders. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War The fact remains: in spite of the difference of blood and language, the Lowlander feels himself the sentimental countryman of the Highlander. Memories and Portraits If the Lowlanders of Scotland felt towards the Highlanders as Mr. Hill Burton asserts that they did feel, we should expect to find references to the difference between Celts and Saxons. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Carlyle was Scotch to the core and to the close, in every respect a macrocosm of the higher peasant class of the Lowlanders. Thomas Carlyle We are sensible that there is a peculiar merit in the work which is in a measure lost upon us, the dialects of the Highlanders, and the Lowlanders, etc. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 Multitudes of bold and deluded Highlanders, and several Lowlanders, who owed their misfortunes to their firm adherence to that family, joined his army. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 But from his compatriot in the south the Lowlander stands consciously apart. Memories and Portraits The incident of which we have now to speak has frequently been quoted as a crowning proof of the difference between the Lowlanders and the "true Scots". An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) His first book was bought farmers, plowboys, milkmaids,—by every Lowlander who could scrape together three shillings to buy a treasure. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Lowlanders are apt to suppose that mountain streams in their wild career over cliffs lose control of themselves and tumble in a noisy chaos of mist and spray. The Yosemite Certainly no Lowlander knew the Highlanders better than he did, and his ear for dialect was as keen as his musical ear was confessedly obtuse. Rob Roy — Volume 01 Did not the Lowlanders sell King Charles to the English? Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden No. I am a true Lowlander: born and bred among bleak Norfolk sands and fens—so much the worse for this chest of mine; and this is my first sight of mountains. Two Years Ago, Volume II. Like many of the ballads in Percy's collection, these poems are stories of old feuds between the Highlander and the Lowlander, and between the border lords of England and Scotland. Halleck's New English Literature It seems some political members of the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge had opposed this pious undertaking, as tending to preserve the distinction between the Highlanders and Lowlanders. Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) The achievement of Robert Oig, or young Rob Roy, as the Lowlanders called him, was celebrated in a ballad, of which there are twenty different and various editions. Rob Roy — Volume 01 The mere fact that the Highlanders espoused the cause of the Stuarts was sufficient in itself to make the Lowlanders take the opposite side. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden Two miles behind the river the Lowlanders captured the whole garrison of a post near the sea, none of whom had the slightest idea that the river had been crossed. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine It seems some political members of the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge, had opposed this pious undertaking, as tending to preserve the distinction between the Highlanders and Lowlanders. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Were I you, I would show Donald Fraser that I could woo and win a lass as speedily as any Lowlander of them all; that I would! The Story Girl The Highlanders, sheltered by their plaids, lay down on the heath comfortably enough, but the Lowlanders had no protection whatever. Rob Roy — Volume 01 They are to India exactly what the Highlanders of Scotland were to the Lowlanders before 1745; and we have just as much right to deal with them in the same way. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 While the 75th Division were making their magnificent effort at Enab the Lowlanders had breasted other and equally difficult hills to the north. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine The skirl of the Scottish bagpipes was heard through all the years of war over the Flemish marshlands, and there were Highlanders and Lowlanders with every dialect over the border. Now It Can Be Told The great majority of the colonists sent thither by James were Scotch Lowlanders, but among them were many English and a smaller number of Highlanders. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground The Lowlander was by no means content with this security, but did not think it safe to dispute Rob's injunctions. Rob Roy — Volume 01 But such a scene is liable to convulsions of nature which a Lowlander cannot estimate, and which may have choked up what was originally a cavern. The Lady of the Lake The first counter-attack in the dark hours drove the Lowlanders off, but they were shortly afterwards back on the hills again. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine The change in the feeling with which the Lowlanders regarded the highland scenery was closely connected with a change not less remarkable in the feeling with which they regarded the Highland race. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The Lowlanders are generally cool and circumspect, the Highlanders fiery and ferocious:' but this violence of their passions serves only to inflame the zeal of their devotion to strangers, which is truly enthusiastic. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Neither ought the English to be much influenced by Scotch authority; for of the past and present state of the whole Earse nation, the Lowlanders are at least as ignorant as ourselves. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland I mean intelligible in comparison with their gibberish, for even the Lowlanders talk a kind of English little better than the negroes in Jamaica. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since The Lowlanders had another very strenuous day in the sand-dune belt. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine The Lowlanders who had followed Dundee to the mountains shifted for themselves as they best could. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 General — is half a Lowlander, half an Englishman. Chronicles of the Canongate Because Philip the Second's faith was strong and clear he, quite logically, killed a hundred thousand Lowlanders in the hope that their fellow countrymen would be turned to the all-important truth. The New Revelation Before that period, the Lowlanders were as constantly engaged in war as the mountaineers, and were incomparably better disciplined and armed. A Legend of Montrose Early on the morning after the Lowlanders had entered Mejdel I was in the neighbourhood. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine So completely has the old antipathy been extinguished that nothing is more usual than to hear a Lowlander talk with complacency and even with pride of the most humiliating defeat that his ancestors ever underwent. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Neither can it be denied, that, in the material points of military habits and warlike spirit, the Lowlanders of the seventeenth century had sunk far beneath their Highland countrymen. A Legend of Montrose Nay, she had consented, though not without a feeling of degradation, to take service with the intruding Lowlander, who, though a Saxon, she said, had proved a kind man to her. A Legend of Montrose In every other point their line was penetrated at the first onset; and this advantage once obtained, the Lowlanders were utterly unable to contend at close quarters with their more agile and athletic enemies. A Legend of Montrose |
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