| 单词 | Lowlands |
| 例句 | Ceilidhs are held throughout Scotland, though they tend to be concerts in the Highlands of north Scotland and dances in the Lowlands of southern Scotland. In Edinburgh, dancing is a great way to reel in new friends 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The work nominated for the Turner Prize, the sound installation “Lowlands,” was originally commissioned for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. Special Report: An Artist Whose Work 'Sounds Like Stars' 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z Meaning that you can’t really see the works, even though one, called “Lowlands,” is at the Tate Modern gallery here. Canvas? Paint? No, Just Sound 2010-12-10T23:35:00Z Bogren's previous book, Lowlands, evoked a strong sense of place though its depiction of a rural Swedish idyll peopled with strange and beautiful characters. Tractor Boys by Martin Bogren – review 2013-07-07T13:00:01Z It contains four CDs of music: two discs containing performances from the Highlands, and two discs sourced from the Lowlands. The Sheltering Sound: Paul Bowles’s Attempt to Save Moroccan Music 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Philipsz's Lowlands, which was commissioned for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, underlined the importance of live music in generating a sense of community in Glasgow. The real Turner prize winner: this one's for you, Glasgow 2010-12-08T15:00:00Z I first heard Philipsz's Lowlands when it was broadcast beneath a bridge on the Clyde at this year's Glasgow International festival. Turner prize 2010: Dark nights of the soul 2010-10-04T17:53:00Z That's true, but perhaps only in the same sense that Bob Dylan's Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is a song about his wife. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night two: Radio-Activity 2013-02-08T14:53:56Z Last year, she won the coveted Turner Prize, awarded to British artists younger than 50, for "Lowlands," a looping recording of Philipsz's lone voice singing the eponymous Scottish traditional, installed under three echoey Glaswegian bridges. Susan Philipsz: Sounding off on standing up 2011-02-24T23:36:57Z Today, ceilidhs in the northern Highlands tend to be concerts, while in the southern Lowlands, they tend to be dances. In Edinburgh, dancing is a great way to reel in new friends 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z His modern take on classical music mixed with hip-hop – backed by a 50-piece orchestra – has been a big success at Dutch festivals such as Lowlands and Pinkpop. Dutch music now: from Amsterdam to Zwolle 2012-06-12T15:37:00Z Curiously, he sings everything as though he had grown up in Jamaica rather than the central Lowlands. Paolo Nutini 2010-04-10T23:08:00Z At the following year's Lowlands festival in Holland, they were booked on the main stage. Scala & Kolacny brothers: How Creep made a choir go global 2011-07-14T20:29:01Z Outside of the confines of the Lowlands, however, his work found widespread appreciation. Ruud van Empel's strange creations 2013-03-20T12:17:00Z Its full name, worth repeating because good dog names are as rare in literature as they are in life, is Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. Mourning With the Help of a Great Dane 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z She recalls how a fleeting moment at Lowlands, a music festival held every summer to the east of Amsterdam, was a pivotal moment of inspiration. 'I hid my scars for years ... I thought I was only good for horror movies' 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Philipsz's room in this year's Turner prize exhibition at Tate Britain consisted of her disembodied, recorded voice singing the 16th-century traditional Scottish song, Lowlands Away. Turner prize won by Susan Philipsz 2010-12-06T23:24:00Z However, after 1860 continuing high levels of Scottish out-migration were overwhelmingly from the industrialised Lowlands. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z Betsy Plum, who organizes an old-time session every other Monday night at Lowlands, a bar in Gowanus, Brooklyn, said that every jam in New York has its own personality. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z It was composed of recordings of the artist singing the 16th-century Anglo-Scottish lament “Lowlands Away,” played simultaneously under three different bridges that span the River Clyde in Glasgow. Special Report: An Artist Whose Work 'Sounds Like Stars' 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z Back in the town centre, I heard a voice singing the folk song Lowlands. The Glasgow International impact zone 2010-04-19T20:30:00Z The work that clinched the prize was the installation Lowlands Away, under three bridges of the Clyde in Glasgow, made for the art festival Glasgow International. Susan Philipsz: Sonic boom 2010-12-07T21:30:00Z The Stedelijk used the Layar application at the Lowlands music festival in the Netherlands in August and in September at Picnic, a yearly conference in Amsterdam on art, science, technology and business. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Art Gets Unmasked in the Palm of Your Hand 2010-12-01T12:00:00Z Every year, the Lowlands music festival in the Netherlands, a large, open-air festival akin to Chicago’s Lollapalooza, includes a single classical act on its program. Perspective | Opera plays its Trump card: Yes, the president is showing up in Verdi 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Both this and Philipsz's Lowlands, which won her the Turner, are instances of the same insight: art begins with the idea of art. Turner prize: Susan Philipsz may be a worthy winner, but don't call her a sound artist 2010-12-07T11:47:00Z Why did an advanced industrial society – the Scottish Lowlands of the 19th and early 20th centuries – lose so many more of its people to emigration than most other parts of western Europe? To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z Moke have reached No 2 in the Dutch charts and played to audiences of up to 60,000 spectators at the Lowlands festival, the Netherlands' version of Glastonbury. Felix Maginn: star seeking answers for a brother lost in the Troubles 2013-01-06T15:50:23Z They began by mapping more than 1,000 deep-seated landslides across the Puget Lowlands -- deep-seated refers to landslides where the slide plane lays below the roots of the trees -- using a technique called airborne lidar. New dates for landslides reveal past Seattle fault earthquakes 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Strongest wind gusts from 50-55 mph will be across the East Puget Sound Lowlands and along the Central/N. Coast, including areas along the western portion of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Thousands without power as wet, windy weather continues in Western WA 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “I feel very lucky to be close in space and time to songs like ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’ and ‘Murder Most Foul’ and ‘Jokerman,’ ” Swift says. One Fan’s Search for Seeds of Greatness in Bob Dylan’s Hometown This evening, the longest passenger train on Britain’s mainland rail network will pull out of Euston and head for the Scottish Lowlands. Haggis, whisky ... double beds: the new romance of the sleeper train 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z By clearing trees for commercial agriculture, they also usurp the authority of local indigenous groups such as the Miskito, Mayangna and Rama, whose autonomous jurisdictions include most of the Caribbean Lowlands’ preserved areas. Nicaragua's Actions Cast a Shadow over Its Leadership of Major Climate Group 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Already, though, the survey has yielded surprising insights into settlement patterns, inter-urban connectivity, and militarization in the Maya Lowlands. This Ancient Civilization Was Twice As Big As Medieval England 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z After all, I’m a guy who bothered to listen to Dylan’s epically arcane Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands enough times to figure out it was actually about his drummer. Trump promised to wipe out Isis – perhaps he already has ... | Rich Hall 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The landscape lies along the Highland Boundary Fault in a geological "gap" between the Lowlands and Highlands, meaning Callander provides a natural gateway to the National Park and the Highlands. £7.5m funding for three of Scotland's iconic landscapes - BBC News 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z She made no more official Nazi films, but the inverted mountain movie that she worked on during the war, titled “Lowlands,” was lavishly financed by the Reich. Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl’s Divided World 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Just listen to his many different iterations of “Tangled Up In Blue” or the nearly 12-minute meditation that takes place on “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.” Why do pop singers like Lady Gaga keep releasing jazz albums? The upsides are tremendous. 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The National Institute for Anthropology and History says the discoveries will help archaeologists study the cultural and political histories of an area known as the Central Lowlands of the Maya region. 2 new Maya civilization centers studied in Mexico 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z But when the Industrial Revolution drew thousands of people from Ireland, the Lowlands and Highlands, the population exploded and for many it became a living hell. Why is Glasgow the UK’s sickest city? 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z These deposits are situated in the Ring of Fire area, James Bay Lowlands, of Northern Ontario. Cliffs Sells Northern Ontario Exploration Camp, Maintains Commitment To Disciplined Capital Allocation 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The Hudson Bay Lowlands were one of the last holdouts against the trend of global warming in the Arctic, but has in a very short period succumbed. Global Warming Finally Reaches the Last Arctic Region 2013-11-07T23:15:00.477Z This was apparent in the surge of migration of the Scots-Irish from Northern Ireland and the Scottish Lowlands to the largely unsettled lands along the Appalachian chain in the dozen years before the American Revolution. A Nation Built for Immigrants 2013-09-21T03:26:11Z "Energetic" storms were forecast in eastern Scotland which were likely to spread into the central Lowlands and southern Scotland. 'Energetic' storm warning issued 2013-05-20T11:32:21Z I grew up in a town deep in the Lowlands. The formula for Scottishness 2012-10-26T01:25:43Z Mannen van de Tango represents their first appearance at the popular Lowlands music festival. Dutch arts under siege after cuts 2012-09-06T06:38:08Z But despite arriving much later in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, the speed and magnitude of the warming taking place here is extraordinary. Global Warming Finally Reaches the Last Arctic Region 2013-11-07T23:15:00.477Z Lowlands and along banks; honey yield good and bees fairly roam over blossoms, but species not plentiful. Texas Honey Plants 2012-04-04T02:00:58.927Z This area is to be distinguished from the Lowlands by language and race, the preservation of the Gaelic speech being characteristic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The only solution I see is to let them develop the Lowlands where we can't live, and to keep the Highlands for ourselves. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z We had heard of Highlands and Lowlands, of Melrose and Stirling, but for our lives we could not have pointed them out on the map. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The Hudson Bay Lowlands are the southern-most Arctic region in the world, and therefore on the front lines of rising temperatures. Global Warming Finally Reaches the Last Arctic Region 2013-11-07T23:15:00.477Z Lowlands and along streams; some honey but more pollen; valuable for early brood rearing. Texas Honey Plants 2012-04-04T02:00:58.927Z In the Lowlands of Scotland, the name it long went by, of “Lord Derwentwater’s Lights,” was given because it suddenly appeared on the night before the execution of the rebel lord. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The Lowlands of Scotland comprehend the south and southeastern portions of the country, and though not the grandest and most romantic, are by far the best cultivated, and in some respects the most beautiful. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z In spite of Borrow’s vow never to visit Scotland again, he was there eight years later—in 1866—but only in the Lowlands. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z But on the so-called Lowlands of Algoa Bay, beyond the River Samtoos, Nature assumes an entirely different character in her forest vegetation. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z About the 7th of August Montrose suddenly slipped away into the Lowlands, heading for Glasgow. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The Golden Eagle breeds only in the Highlands, but it is not an unfrequent visitor to the Lowlands of Scotland in the cold season. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z His "own romantic town" glories in his memory; every city, village and hamlet of the Lowlands, with strath, meadow and moorland, echo his praise. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Range.—"Lowlands of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico." Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The word is common in the Lowlands and in the North of England. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z A war of manœuvre followed, in which they thwarted every effort of the Royalists to break through into the Lowlands, but in the end retired into Fife. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Their trend is from south-west to north-east, the southern face forming the natural division between the Lowlands and Highlands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Some excuse, too, for religious massacre when, like Mahomet the Second at Constantinople, or Alva in the Lowlands, the bigoted murderers honestly conceived that their brutal work was in the interest of God. The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z The Lowlands were overcrowded, and there was not bread enough to go around. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z His death in the moment of victory broke, however, the only bond which held the Highlanders together, and in a few weeks the host which had spread terror through the Lowlands melted helplessly away. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z But he had called to his aid the semi-barbarous Highlanders, and however much the Lowlands resented a Presbyterian inquisition, they hated and feared the Highland clans beyond all else. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Three young Highlanders, some years ago, set out from their native hills, to seek a livelihood amongst their countrymen in the Lowlands. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z From the year 449 until the landing of William the Conqueror, in 1066, nearly all England and the Lowlands of Scotland were in the hands of the Saxon race. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z Brown also, a Scotsman from the outer Hebrides, as he believed, by descent, but by habit and education purely English, felt himself at first an alien in the Scottish Lowlands. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He believed it could be done; he would get a Scotch farmer from the Lowlands and make him superintendent at a handsome salary and with a share in the profits. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z But whether Montrose’s new army was or was not in the Lowlands, it was certain that Leven and Leslie were on the Border, and the mad adventure soon came to an end. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z In that moonlight walk from Lowlands to Nessborough Hollow there was time enough for Mr. Lansdell to fall into many moods. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z But he also seized Haddington in 1548, held by force the greater part of the Lowlands, and, when Mary was transported to France, revived the old feudal claims which he had dropped in 1547. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z We visited the land of Burns, in the South, or Lowlands, saw Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the home of Sir Walter Scott, on the Lower Tweed. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z This word appears to be in use both in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland; the first a Gaelic, the second originally a Cymraeg district. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race 2011-02-06T03:00:56.253Z In the Lowlands, the howling of a strange dog was accepted as a warning of the approaching death of some inmate of the house near which the melancholy wail was raised. Bygone Church Life in Scotland 2011-01-14T03:00:48.713Z And it was to deliver up the money thus obtained that she met her father in Nessborough Hollow on the night of that dismal dinner at Lowlands. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z It is now much less prevalent even in the Highlands and Islands, where such beliefs linger longer than they do in the Lowlands. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Her £25,000 prize winning work - Lowlands Away - featured her singing three versions of a Scottish lament. Entertainment review of the year: 2010 2010-12-29T05:13:22Z This is not quite the country of the second sight," said my friend; "it is too much on the borders of the Lowlands. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 In the Lowlands, Friday was considered an unlucky day for weddings, but in the Highlands, it was the day generally chosen for the ceremony. Bygone Church Life in Scotland 2011-01-14T03:00:48.713Z And Lowlands was beginning to look quite a deserted habitation. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z The Canadians were to the English settlers in New England or New York, very much what the Highlanders of Scotland, in past centuries, were to the dwellers in the Lowlands. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical The Highlands of Scotland begin at the Grampian Hills and the Lowlands extend south from this line to the British border, and include the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Races and Immigrants in America It was all familiar ground to me, of course, but I had been over it hitherto with my eyes on nothing else and my heart in the Lowlands. Witching Hill In the Lowlands the accounts are more conflicting; but it is remarkable that almost every farmer confesses now, that his first apprehensions were greatly worse than the reality. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 So I suppose that really the best thing we can do is to settle at Lowlands. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z With these changes there gradually formed a dialect, a mingling of the two forms of speech, which became the language of the Court, and of the powerful dwellers in the Lowlands. A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland Forms of Brythonic speech were doubtless current throughout England and Wales and the Lowlands of Scotland at the time of the Saxon invasion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" He was wrapped up in a Scottish plaid, and wore on his head the well-known flat blue bonnet of the Scottish Lowlands. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 As might be expected, it is richest in the sayings common throughout the three Lothians, though the Lowlands, as a whole, are well represented. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series It was four o'clock when he left the gates of Lowlands, and the next day was Sunday. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z When I lived in Scotland three languages were spoken in my house all day long, and a housemaid came to us from the Lowlands who spoke nothing but Lowland Scotch. The Intellectual Life England is out of the question, and I hardly know a spot in the Lowlands that is not occupied already.” Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 Many of the nobles whose estates lay in the Lowlands of Scotland had themselves suffered from Highland cattle-lifters, and thus they were imbued with a fellow feeling for the raided English across the border. A Prince of Good Fellows Our way lies through some of the most storied scenery in the Lowlands. In the Border Country Only from Lady Gwendoline was Roland likely to hear of George Gilbert's illness; and he had not been to Lowlands lately. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Therefore "row, vassals, row, for the pride of the Lowlands;" and as rowing is a thirsty exercise, let us land at the Ferry, and each man refresh himself with a horn of ale. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Gathered together from the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore If he has, he may tell the king what I say, when he goes back to the Lowlands.” A Prince of Good Fellows We turn, therefore, with interest, while writing these last pages, to "Magyarland," a lady's "Narrative of Travels through the Highlands and Lowlands of Hungary." Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century Roland only got rid of him at last by promising to dine at Lowlands that evening. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z All the consequences that might naturally have been expected have ensued; and we are now as heartily sick of the Lowlands, and they of us. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Inland, it loses itself, joining, I suppose, the great herd of similar hills that occupies the centre of the Lowlands. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Everyone is a friend of James Stuart of the Lowlands, but I hear nobody say a good word for the king.” A Prince of Good Fellows But they were merely such preparations as he would have made for a descent on the Lowlands, at harvest time. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative He came near the place at last; a little tired by the long walk from Lowlands; a good deal wearied by all the contending emotions of the last few hours. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z The last part of "Jetta of the Lowlands" was a fitting conclusion to a great story. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 It has this movable porch by way of architecture; it has, as we shall see, a sort of remnant of provincial costume, and it has the handsomest population in the Lowlands.... The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers This is James Stuart, a friend of mine from the Lowlands, and I have brought him with me that he may learn what boat-building really is.” A Prince of Good Fellows I'm certain your "Jetta of the Lowlands" is going to be a masterpiece of Ray Cummings. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Our charts showed the Lowlands there to run down to what once was measured as nearly three thousand fathoms—called now eighteen thousand feet below the zero-height. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 One on Us Dear Editor: I have been following with great interest Ray Cummings' latest piece, "Jetta of the Lowlands," which is rather unique in its ideas. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 As a young man he had brought her to the Lowlands to seek his fortune. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 It seems to spread to the Lowlands as well. A Prince of Good Fellows The second part of "Jetta of the Lowlands" was better than the first. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Hidden down here in the depths of the Mid-Atlantic Lowlands. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 To my left, eastward toward the great basin of the mid-Atlantic Lowlands, there was always a steady downward slope. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 And I recalled that a year ago, a suppressed dispatch intimated that the Service had lost one—wrecked in the Lowlands and never found. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 The miner is still with us, but the weaver is almost obsolete in the Lowlands. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland To my mind, the stories in order of merit are: "The Invisible Death," "Stolen Brains," "Jetta of the Lowlands," "Prisoners on the Electron," and "An Extra Man." Astounding Stories, February, 1931 An episode of the strange, romantic, fantastic Lowlands. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 The murky shadows of night were gathering, the mists of the Lowlands settling. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 A few hundred years ago when these dry Lowlands held the tossing seas. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 In the Lowlands we skip over our books and know nothing thoroughly. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Her mother lamented they were so far from school, they should be obliged to send the children down into the Lowlands to be taught reading and English. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 And thus I shall conclude my song, Of the sailing in the Lowlands, Wishing all happiness to all seamen both old and young, In their sailing in the Lowlands. Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series I was twenty-five years of age that May evening of 2020 when they sent me south into the Lowlands. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Into remote Lowlands, in an invisible flyer, go Grant and Jetta—prisoners of a scientific depth bandit. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 There had been some snow in the Lowlands, but at Grantown the fall had been excessive, and the roads were encumbered. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The clans inhabiting the region about Loch Katrine were in the habit of making incursions into the neighboring Lowlands to plunder and lay waste the country. Lady of the Lake He therefore, after consultation with his friends, came to the conclusion that his best plan was to make for the Lowlands, and to this end he set out for Edinburgh as soon as possible. The True Story Book There was often water to be seen in these Lowlands. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 We kept well below the zero-height, with the dark crags of the Lowlands passing under us. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 In our own day, Dr. Murray of Oxford has compiled an illuminating grammar of the language, indicating the various dialects of the Lowlands and their geographical areas. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland There was enough of the South Carolinian of 49 the Lowlands in Croyden, to appreciate the Past and to honor it. In Her Own Right The hothouse atmosphere of Padang is gladly exchanged for the freshness of the mountain heights, approached by a cog-wheel railway, and affording truer pictures of Sumatran life than the hybrid port of the steaming Lowlands. Through the Malay Archipelago Let us create the Lowlands—twenty thousand feet below the zero-height—the setting for a tale of adventure. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 In the Lowlands, the curing-stone of greatest celebrity, and the one which has longest retained its repute, is The Lee Penny. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 Many Englishmen settle in the Lowlands for purposes of trade, and, in most cases, bring their religion with them. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland “Lamenting and repenting,” he says, “to have seen so many Christians slaughter one another,” in France and the Lowlands, he enlisted in the wars against the Turks. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader There you have the rough, rugged hills of the Highlands combined with the cultivated plains of the Lowlands, and waving woods, affording an air of warmth and freshness to the landscape. Chronicles of Strathearn I had frequently flown over the Lowlands; I had descended into them many times. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 But to leave the Lowlands and go into the far North, we take you to Loch Assynt, in Sutherlandshire, and to a little loch near it,—Loch Awe by name. Scotch Loch-Fishing Almost every schoolmaster I have met, either in the Highlands or Lowlands, has his budget of anecdotes, usually dealing with children's answers or the droll eccentricities of the local School Board. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland As time went on the English kings found it to their advantage to grant to the Scottish rulers certain border districts, including the Lowlands, between the river Tweed and the Firth of Forth. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe Lowlands which may be found well adapted to the growth of willow and gum trees, may be too wet and sour for the growth of nut trees. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 The silence of the Lowlands is as heavy and oppressive as its air. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 The actual change was slow; the innovations, as a rule, began in those districts bordering on the Lowlands, and thence proceeded in a northwesterly direction. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Some teachers in the Lowlands complain of children playing truant. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland It was very important in the history of Scotland that its kings chose to dwell in the Lowlands rather than in the Highlands, and made Edinburgh, with its fortress, their chief town. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe But the peasant of North Italy is no more of an idler than the peasant of the Lowlands. Stray Studies from England and Italy Fantastic and sinister are the Lowlands into which Philip Grant descends on his dangerous assignment. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Although there was a strong movement for England from the Lowlands, yet many were from the Highlands, to whom was partly due the old proverb, "There never came a fool from Scotland." An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America There are not many farm-houses in the Lowlands of Scotland in which one does not find old copies, bound and unbound, of Wilson's Tales. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland For the lady’s vow to put no comb in her hair, occurring in both ballads, compare Clerk Sanders, 21.4 The Lowlands of Holland is merely a lyrical version of the same theme. Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Perhaps my success at Edinburgh may have given fillip to Liberalism in the Lowlands. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887 I had been in the National Detective Service Bureau, and then was transferred to the Customs Department, Atlantic Lowlands Branch. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 The land south of this line is called the Lowlands, and that to the north, including the range, the Highlands. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Visitors from the Lowlands do not suspect that such tales as I have narrated still live on the lips of the Gairloch natives, and help to pass the hours at many an evening reunion. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Scotland itself, now that the Highlanders were away, quietly renewed in all the districts of the Lowlands its allegiance to the House of Hanover. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 The Pacific Coast Lowlands.—Climatically this region differs from the rest of the United States in having a rainy and a dry season—that is, the rainfall is wholly seasonal. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The Lowlands lay patched with inky shadows and splashes of moonlight. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Roger turned and watched them out of sight behind the firs that cupped Lowlands. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 Highland gentlemen of every degree are mostly fond of Gillespie; while operatives from the Lowlands generally prefer plain Scotch. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce In Scotland his tyranny had been yet greater than in England, and so far as the Lowlands went the fall of his tyranny was as rapid and complete. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 The summer afternoon was fair, and the waves that rolled upon the north shore of Solway Firth in the western Lowlands of Scotland were calm and even. Historic Boyhoods A few hundred miles of tumbled Lowlands, embracing the turgid Nares Sea, whose bottom is the lowest point of all the Western Hemisphere—some thirty thousand feet below the zero-height. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 He went to Lowlands the next afternoon and found Tim there—in his chair again. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 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 His death in the moment of victory broke however the only bond which held the Highlanders together, and in a few weeks the host which had spread terror through the Lowlands melted helplessly away. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 But the Londoner in 1714 was scarcely better informed about the Scotch Lowlands. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I The "Gospellers" from the Lowlands already formed a marked body in the army that fought at Pinkie Cleugh. History of the English People, Volume IV He did not go to Lowlands for two weeks. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 They are chubby and jolly, and don't quarrel so much, or speak so harshly as school board children in our Bonnie Lowlands. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah He was always hopeful that more clans would declare for him or that other forces would be raised in the Lowlands or in England. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North At this time the average Englishman knew little about the Lowlands and nothing about the Highlands of Scotland. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I The work of destruction went on along the east coast and through the Lowlands, while the "Congregation" sprang up everywhere in its train. History of the English People, Volume IV What had been called the Southern Lowlands was a frozen, lifeless waste. Space Prison They came with the first snowstorm of winter, the clan in companies down Glenaora and his lordship roundabout by the Lowlands, where he had a mission to the Estates. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Lowlands occupied most of the region where the Cascade Range now rises with its lofty volcanic peaks. The Western United States A Geographical Reader They were all dark-visaged, eagle-eyed Highlanders, who made raids upon the Lowlands to avenge ancient wrongs. The Second Chance His verses in Scots are full of humour, and he had a complete mastery of the old Northern English of the Lowlands. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) At this time, the most disturbed districts in Scotland were those nearest to the Lowlands; the bitterness of political feelings was added to the sense of injustice, and the loss of lands. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. The Lowlands men might salute his gentility if they cared; no residenters of the place did so, but turned their shoulders on him and were very busy with their affairs as he passed. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn But with the weakening of Rome the bones began to break under barbarian pressure, coming at first from the north; from the Picts who lay beyond Agricola's boundary in what is now the Scotch Lowlands. A Short History of England Order however crept gradually in; the exile of the Douglases left the Scottish monarchs supreme in the Lowlands; while their dominion over the Highlands was secured by the ruin of the Lords of the Isles. History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 I know nothing finer in Scottish history than the way in which the commons of the Lowlands took their places by the side of Knox in the great convulsions which followed. Short Studies on Great Subjects Rob Roy had become in repute with Robin Hood of the Lowlands. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. As though to deny his physical smallness, he smoked one of the fragrant, foot-long cigars produced only in the Hadriacum Lowlands. Rebels of the Red Planet Nevertheless, the new creed did become popular in the Lowlands in a positive sense, not even yet known in our own land. A Short History of England "You are not one of those new people I am hearing of in the Lowlands that are wiser than the fery Apostles?" Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Then respectable farmers’ sons with sickles on their backs, and well filled wallets over their p. 154shoulders, went in companies to the early English Lowlands to hire themselves as harvest labourers. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales His name was a terror to all who had ever incurred his wrath; his depredations were soon extended to the Lowlands. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. His attack upon mountains was most violent, and proved, by its personality, that he had come from the Lowlands. The Young Duke It used, not very long ago, to be pretty generally believed by our southern brethren, that there were few trees in the Lowlands of Scotland, and none at all in the Highlands. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Well, you must know," and Carmichael laid himself out for narration, "the people were harassed with raids from the Lowlands during Cunningham's time, and did their best in self-defence. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers He needed no interpreter as he passed from village to village; the frugal long-headed Northumbrians listened willingly to one who was himself a peasant of the Lowlands and who had caught the rough Northumbrian burr. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See The vicinity of the rich districts of the Lowlands gave a rich stimulus to the appetite for plunder natural to a martial and impoverished people. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. His field of wandering included the entire Lowlands, and he occasionally penetrated into Highland districts. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The lovely Lowlands undulating away into the glorious Highlands—the spirit of sublimity and the spirit of beauty one and the same, as it blends them in indissoluble union. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 What better could a man be?" and Kate's eyes sparkled; "they must envy the old times when their fathers raided the Lowlands and came home with the booty. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers The owner of the site, one of the Archdeckens, an Anglo-Irish family, having gone away to the wars in the Lowlands, his better-half promised him a pleasant surprise on his return. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway After this necessary preliminary, Lord Lovat made a tour among some of the principal nobility in the Lowlands. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Let the maids of the Lowlands Vaunt their silks and their Hollands, In the garb of the Highlands Oh give me my dear! The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Moray was a man rather above the average respectability and he confirmed the triumph of Protestantism in the Lowlands in the few short years preceding his assassination in January, 1570. The Age of the Reformation Nevertheless, Hume was probably right, as the outbreak of '45 was little better than a Highland raid, and the Pretender obtained no important following in the Lowlands. Hume (English Men of Letters Series) I have a good mind to come and commence shepherd beside you, and aid you in making a yearly pastoral Gazette in prose and verse for our ain native Lowlands. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century They had a thousand men still together, and vowed that they would not give up hope while there were cattle in the Highlands or meal in the Lowlands. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Had a summer sun risen on a winter morning, it could not have surprised the Lowlands of Scotland more than this Kilmarnock volume surprised and delighted the people, one and all. 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 The militia was called out, horse and foot, in all the Lowlands, save in the disaffected shires. Claverhouse It passes through a beautiful country, the northeastern Scottish Lowlands, which looked as prosperous and productive as any section we saw. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland But Bruce as of old declined an engagement till the wasted Lowlands starved the invaders into a ruinous retreat. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 No story better lights up for us the new religious life of the time than the story of this Apostle of the Lowlands. History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 The Anglo-Saxons, it is commonly believed, came to England and the Lowlands of Scotland in overpowering numbers, and actually exterminated or drove into the rugged west the native Celts. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Throughout the wild hill-districts of the Western Lowlands they preached their fierce crusade against all who were not prepared to stand by the spirit of the Covenant as they chose to interpret it. Claverhouse A similar belief still lingers, especially among women, in the Lowlands. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Edward's soldiers had been driven from the open country and confined to the fortresses of the Lowlands. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 A large part of the conquered country was bestowed upon the see of Lindisfarne, which was at this time filled by one whom we have seen before labouring as the Apostle of the Lowlands. History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 Early in the following year it was retaken by Edward III, who proclaimed himself the successor of Balliol, and mercilessly ravaged the Lowlands. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) It was clear to him that the game was lost in the Lowlands, but it was not yet clear to him that anything was to be gained in the Highlands. Claverhouse The north was his, Edinburgh, the Jacobites scattered through the Lowlands. Foes For centuries to come the rich plunder of the English camp left its traces on the treasure-rolls and the vestment-rolls of castle and abbey throughout the Lowlands. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 When the Whigs—terrified by the defeat and expecting Dundee at Stirling with the clans and the cavaliers of the Lowlands—heard of his fall, their sorrow was changed into rejoicing. A Short History of Scotland The Highlands and islands have been the last portions of Scotland to succumb to Anglo-Saxon influences; that the Lowlands formed an earlier victim does not prove that their racial complexion is different. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) To keep the Western Lowlands and the Border quiet was Claverhouse's charge. Claverhouse Down through the Lowlands, down wi' the Whigamore, Loyal true Highlanders, down wi' them rarely! Macleod of Dare Bruce's career became that of a desperate adventurer, for even the Highland chiefs in whose fastnesses he found shelter were bitterly hostile to one who claimed to be king of their foes in the Lowlands. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 In the fertile Lowlands that old grievance, insecurity of tenure, and the raising of rents in proportion to improvements made by the tenants, had baffled agriculture. A Short History of Scotland The news of the massacre roused a fierce flame of indignation, not only in the Highlands, but throughout the Lowlands as well, and the Jacobites did not fail to make use of it. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) The Lowlands are worth seeing once, but the mountains are ecstatic, and ought to be visited in pilgrimage once a year. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century It would be difficult to find a more typical old Scotchman of the Lowlands than he looked, with his clean close-shaven face, bright brown eyes, and snow-white hair escaping from a broad-brimmed hat. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The rebellions of the Pretenders in Scotland in 1715 and 1745 and the subsequent break-up of the clan system produced a considerable migration to the colonies from both the Highlands and the Lowlands. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making There was practically no resistance by the Catholic nobility and gentry: in the Lowlands, apparently, almost all were of the new persuasion. A Short History of Scotland We should expect to hear something definite of any further change in the Lowlands, and a repopulation of the Highlands of Moray was beyond the limits of possibility. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Its remarkable presence in Scottish poetry, at a time when it is scarcely to be found in English literature, I have traced elsewhere to the large admixture of Celtic blood in the Lowlands of Scotland. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland From the Scottish Lowlands to the Cataracts of the Nile a single people was coming into being; it was a wide and well-tilled field in which incarnate souls might grow. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The opinions on the subject of the fairy people here expressed, are such as are entertained in the Highlands and some remote quarters of the Lowlands of Scotland. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Scarce a noble or gentle house of the Lowlands but reckons an ancestor slain at Flodden. A Short History of Scotland In the eastern Lowlands there were no pretenders and no rebellions, and traces of the earlier civilization remained longer than in Galloway and in Moray. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) From the Lyonesse to the Lowlands, from the Lowlands on to the Germanies; through the Germanies and into Spain. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult For town here, in ta curset Lowlands, ta sight has peen almost cone from her, my son. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 So too in the Lowlands of Scotland it was the Norman knight Robert Bruce who, accepting the already existing Saxon and Roman civilization, raised Scotland into a powerful kingdom. Is Ulster Right? The crops and cattle shall increase, Nor little children shall not cease-- Go--plough the lowlands, lowlands, Lowlands under the hills! A Diversity of Creatures We venture to think that there is some ground for the view that a similar change of civilization occurred in the Lowlands between 1066 and 1286, and, similarly, without a racial dispossession. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) But as for Tristan, let him go and war it in Galloway, or in the Lowlands. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult Ye highlands, and ye Lowlands, Oh where have you been? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Scotland had her feuds between her Highlands and Lowlands. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler Stand fast in the lowlands, lowlands, Lowlands under the hills! A Diversity of Creatures The farmers of Fife and the Lowlands, the artisans of the towns, the dwellers in the coast districts north of Tay, became, by the end of the thirteenth century, stout Northumbrian Englishmen. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Then if the King would keep you and drive me out I would cross to the Lowlands or to Brittany with Gorvenal alone. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult Scotland seemed to call to me—not the Scotland we know, not the shooting, yachting, West Highland Scotland, but the Lowlands, the Borders, our mother's countryside. Penny Plain The voice of the mother calling her homeward through cupped hands and in the Low Dutch of the Lowlands. Every Soul Hath Its Song The waters shall not reckon twice For any work of man's device, But bid it down to the lowlands, lowlands, Lowlands under the hills! A Diversity of Creatures But the argument cannot be transferred to the case of the Scottish Lowlands, where, also, the English language has completely superseded a Celtic tongue. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) I will go as I can, and serve with high heart the mighty King in the Lowlands.” The Romance of Tristan and Iseult Frenchmen, Englishmen, Scotsmen from the Lowlands and Highlands, Irishmen and Americans, united to support the British connection. Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 He said he had plenty of siller, and had studied farming on the most approved principles--sheep-farming in the Highlands, cattle-farming in the Lowlands, and so forth, and, in short, was a model farmer. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character The trees they suck from every cloud, The valley brooks they roar aloud-- Bank-high for the lowlands, lowlands, Lowlands under the hills! A Diversity of Creatures The unique importance of such families as the Douglasses or the Gordons may thus be a portion of the Celtic heritage of the Lowlands. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) They doubtless came from different directions, but, from Highlands or Lowlands, they came from Bible-lighted homes, whose “voices of the night” were blended with the breathings of religious life and instruction. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Sheep and goats grazed then as now over the hills, and herds of cattle began to cover the Lowlands. The Story of Ireland A hit at our mountain neighbours, who occasionally took from the Lowlands--as having found--something that was never lost. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character It is but five years since he made a peace at Nimeguen, by which he tore away sixteen fortresses from the Spanish Lowlands. The Refugees Do we, then, find any racial antagonism between the Highlands and the Lowlands? An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) It must, however, be admitted that the industrial progress thus described was confined almost entirely to the Lowlands, and had scarcely penetrated the mountainous regions lying towards the north-west. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain Ghosts, goblins, wraiths, kelpies, and a whole host of spiritual beings, were familiar to the dwellers by the misty glens of the Highlands and the romantic streams of the Lowlands. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 It was a subject that Robert Chambers had carefully studied, in the Lowlands, in the Highlands, in Rhine-land, in Switzerland, and in Norway. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography This is a queer old book I picked up at a stall yesterday—'De Jure inter Gentes'—published in Latin at Liege in the Lowlands, in 1642. A Study in Scarlet After the Union of the Crowns, the Lowlands of Scotland came to be more and more closely bound to England, while the Highlands remained unaffected by these changes. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Fifty years passed, and the state of the Lowlands had become completely changed. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain The Magyars, being situated in the Lowlands, which are mainly agricultural, hemmed in between Bohemia, Rumania and Yugoslavia, will be in a hopeless strategic and economic position. Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty It was intended to guard the Lowlands, and keep Rob Roy and his caterans within the Highland Border. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography Is he not at this moment a wanderer in the Lowlands, rather than bow his knee to what his conscience approved not of?' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Henceforward Celtic efforts were impossible except in the Highlands, and the Celts of the Lowlands resigned themselves to the process of Anglicization imposed upon them alike by ecclesiastical, political, and commercial circumstances. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) It was a Saxon immigration: the Lowlands became more English than England then was, and Scotch is still more like Saxon than the tongue we speak. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II When the Austrian War of Succession came to an end, in the year 1748, a certain young Suabian who had been campaigning in the Lowlands as army doctor was left temporarily without employment. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Edward was for many years at war with Scotland, which now included the Gaelic-speaking people of the Highlands, and the English-speaking people of the Lowlands. Outline of Universal History Of the Letter that came from the Lowlands Chapter VII. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Neither in the eastern Lowlands, nor in the more disturbed districts of Moray and Galloway, is there any evidence of a radical change in the population. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) In Scotland their transport is modernised, and they travel regularly by steamer from the islands to winter in the Lowlands, and by train from the Highlands. The Naturalist on the Thames The rivers find their way out of the mountainous region by the wildest leaps, and through the most romantic passes connecting the Highlands with the Lowlands. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day The natural ease and politeness of the Highland manners in this class, as contrasted with the rougher type of the Lowlands, used always to delight Mr. Hope-Scott. Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 On the other hand the southern Lowlands, which include only about one-third of Scotland, were subdued by the Teutonic invaders, and so this district became thoroughly English in language and culture. Early European History The clan organization was complete, and clan loyalty had assumed the form of an extravagant devotion; a hostile feeling had arisen between Highlands and Lowlands, and all feeling of common nationality had been lost. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) The biggest Piper on my lord's estate," he began, "comes of a Highland family, and was removed to the Lowlands by my lord's father. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time These men are the pest of the Lowlands. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day It is far away from London, in the Scottish Lowlands—quite out of the way—remote even from tourists and travellers. Blind Love The Lowlands and the Highlands came together under a line of Celtic kings, who fixed their residence at Edinburgh and long maintained their independence. Early European History In the Lowlands of the twelfth century, the whole influence of the Church was directed to the extermination of the Culdee religion, associated with the Celtic language and with Celtic civilization. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Wordsworth is as inseparably connected with the English Lake District as Burns with the Lowlands or Scott with the Border. 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 It seems to me that it must greatly resemble the Lowlands of Scotland. O. T. a Danish Romance See how in the Fen Land they thatch with reeds, and how upon the Chalk Downs with straw from the Lowlands. First and Last One might suppose that the Lowlands, geographically only an extension of northern England and inhabited by an English-speaking people, would have early united with the southern kingdom. Early European History Above all, the difference lies in the rise of burghs in the Lowlands. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) For town here in ta curset Lowlands, ta sight has peen almost cone from her, my son. Malcolm It is of Scotch origin, being played in the Lowlands as early as 1300. Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 The MacGregors assembled in numbers at that period, and began even to threaten the Lowlands towards the lower extremity of Loch Lomond. Rob Roy — Volume 01 He himself strongly urged the last course, believing that the prince would not venture to descend into the Lowlands while he remained in his rear. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden He was encountered by Dundee, and compelled to evacuate the high country and fall back upon the Lowlands, where he subsequently received reinforcements, and again marched northward. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems How long we stayed there I don't know—long enough, at all events, to get a glimpse of the Dutch police system and the third degree as practiced in the Lowlands. The Log of a Noncombatant But doubtless as you know, the white wine of the Lowlands is not the white wine of the mountains. Olivia in India The great fault between the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland extends across the country from Stonehaven to near Helensburgh, a distance of 120 miles; and there are very many more of less importance. Is Mars habitable? A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals," with an alternative explanation If all the Highland clans join, and if there are sufficient Jacobites in the Lowlands and England to make a large army, we may do. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden So rapid was the advance of Charles, that he traversed the Lowlands of Scotland, and the northern counties in England, without meeting a single foe. The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 General Sheridan, who had effected this inglorious but important success, then proceeded to the Lowlands, joined General Grant's army, and was ready, with his large force of horse, to take part in the coming battles. A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee But it is remarkable that the same results took place in all the counties or dukedoms of the Lowlands precisely at the same period. Holland The History of the Netherlands I think we are very happy here," she said; "there cannot be anything in the Lowlands prettier than the mountains—" "Oh! The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier In the Lowlands he has found scarce an adherent, and but a handful in England. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden This victory placed the Lowlands at the mercy of the conqueror. The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 They delayed only till Dundee should descend into the Lowlands; but since he is no more, which of his successors dare take that decisive step, unless encouraged by the troops declaring themselves! Old Mortality, Volume 2. From the Caldon, the labours of Old Mortality, in the course of time, spread over nearly all the Lowlands of Scotland. Old Mortality, Volume 1. At Santen, in the Lowlands, there once lived a young prince named Siegfried. The Story of Siegfried George's troops have plenty to think about without interfering with the Lowlands drovers. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden Under the inspiration and lead of the famous Sir William Wallace, an outlaw knight, all the Lowlands were soon in determined revolt. General History for Colleges and High Schools There the Celt found refuge when Saxon invasion swept him from the open country of England and from the Scotch Lowlands. Lectures and Essays "Let us winter in the country of King Campbell," was what the Macdonalds and other clans muttered among themselves; and Montrose, who would have preferred a descent into the Lowlands, listened and pondered. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Five days they rode through the Lowlands, and glad were the Lowland folk with sight of their hero-king. The Story of Siegfried The religious feeling, which had always counted for so much in the Lowlands, and had caused Scotland to side with the Parliament against King Charles, had not lost its force. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden Many years after, Cosmo discovered that she had not told it quite right, for having been brought up in the Lowlands, she did not thoroughly know the ancient customs of the Highlands. Warlock o' Glenwarlock Wallace having dictated his terms and sent his prisoners to England, commenced the march that was to clear the Lowlands of the foe. The Scottish Chiefs Flash the phrase through the Highlands, flash it through the Lowlands, for a whole year, and you have an epitome of this epic of Montrose and his triumph. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Twice every year he crossed the sea and rambled through the Rhine valleys, or loitered in the moist Lowlands; and now and then he brought rich trophies back to his island home. The Story of Siegfried We had need to be gude and gracious baith," said the king, still more pettishly, "that have idiots about us that cannot understand what we mint at, unless we speak it out in braid Lowlands. The Fortunes of Nigel While the heavy armed troops occupied all the Lowlands, Lorne and his followers made a circuit in the mountains so as to inclose the royal fugitive between them. In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce They had seized on every castle in the Lowlands; none having been considered too insignificant to escape their hands. The Scottish Chiefs Montrose's wife died about the same time in the eastern Lowlands, and Montrose, at some risk, was present at her funeral. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 This is Siegfried the brave, the Prince of the Lowlands, and the Lord of Nibelungen Land. The Story of Siegfried Born and bred in the Lowlands of Scotland, Arthur Balfour avoided the narrowness and materialism of the extreme High Church; but he was a strong Churchman. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One The Highlands of Scotland meet the Lowlands on the south with a bold front of rugged hills along a line of dislocation which runs across the country from sea to sea. The Elements of Geology Is not the greater part of the Lowlands free? The Scottish Chiefs I pump the water and grind the grain, The marshy fields of the Lowlands, drain. The Dutch Twins But his thoughts were ever turned toward his father's home in the Lowlands across the sea, and he longed to behold again his gentle mother Sigelind. The Story of Siegfried In Scotland, likewise—in the Highlands and even in the Lowlands- -a considerable number of names, or at least of terminations, are still to be met in the geography of the country. Irish Race in the Past and the Present Many English joined the migration, and Scotch of the Lowlands who were largely of English extraction, although there were many Gaelic or Celtic names among them. The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware By their assistance, to seize the fortresses in the Lowlands, and so form a chain of repulsion against the admission of fresh troops from England. The Scottish Chiefs In the olden time it was one of the established roads for making raids into the Lowlands. The Lady of the Lake One cliff-like wall or the other lay to the sun all day, so that the way was lined with a profusion of every wild thing that turns green and blooms in the Lowlands of Scotland. Greyfriars Bobby She played old tunes—"There is a Tavern in the Town," "Once I Loved a Maiden Fair," "Mowing the Barley," "Clementine," "Lowlands," and sang to them such words as she remembered. Saint's Progress He could bring seventeen hundred claymores into the field; and, ten years before the Revolution, he had actually marched into the Lowlands with this great force for the purpose of supporting the prelatical tyranny. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 At a consultation of the Jacobite leaders, a gentleman from the Lowlands spoke with severity of those sycophants who had changed their religion to curry favour with King James. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The River Demon, or River-horse, for it is that form which he commonly assumes, is the Kelpy of the Lowlands, an evil and malicious spirit, delighting to forebode and to witness calamity. The Lady of the Lake But there were so many calls—in English, in Celtic, and in various dialects of the Lowlands—that the little dog dared not trust them. Greyfriars Bobby This autumn he was up in the Lowlands, close by, and very kindly made a few unobtrusive inquiries for me. The Longest Journey Like Glenarvan, and a few noble families in the Lowlands, he had no heart for the union with England. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant Several clans, which had hitherto waited to see which side was the stronger, were now eager to descend on the Lowlands under the standard of King James the Seventh. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The plaid was properly the dress of a Highlander, though it was worn also in the Lowlands. The Lady of the Lake It was killed by the Francis Roos version of the Psalms, after which the Scottish folk of the Lowlands cast everything into that mould.' The Valet's tragedy, and other studies The Lowlands of Scotland had once undoubtedly an equal portion of woods with other countries. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland The burns of the Lowlands are now almost barren of trout. Angling Sketches In the Western Lowlands, the beneficed clergy had been so effectually rabbled, that scarcely one of them had remained at his post. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 To recapitulate all the crimes, by which this man, and men like him, goaded the peasantry of the Western Lowlands into madness, would be an endless task. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 The Lowlands were also prepared, for reasons which we assigned at the beginning of this tale. A Legend of Montrose He dashed into the Lowlands with his horsemen, surprised Perth, and carried off some Whig gentlemen prisoners to the mountains. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 With these old troops were joined two regiments newly levied in the Lowlands. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 A form of notice was drawn up and served on every curate in the Western Lowlands who had not yet been rabbled. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The great question was whether the Highlands or the Lowlands should be the seat of war. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 It is neither limited to Saxon nor to Gael, to mountain nor to strath, to Highlands nor to Lowlands. A Legend of Montrose All that remained was to invade the Lowlands under every disadvantage. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Cochrane and Hume were at the head of the force which sailed to invade the Lowlands. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Their descent was eminently illustrious: their influence was immense: one of them could raise the Western Lowlands: the other could bring into the field an army of northern mountaineers. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The Highlanders consequently deserted by hundreds; and the Earl, brokenhearted by his misfortunes, yielded to the urgency of those who still pertinaciously insisted that he should march into the Lowlands. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Yet whatever temptation Montrose found to carry into effect his attack upon Argyleshire, he could not easily bring himself to renounce the splendid achievement of a descent upon the Lowlands. A Legend of Montrose |
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