 | Patrick Graham - 1810 - 152 pages
...gloomy grandeur. The Urisks were a fort of lubberly fupernaturals, who, like the Brownies of England, could be gained over by kind attentions, to perform...the Highlands had one of the order attached to it. They were fuppofed to be difperfed over the Highlands, each in his own wild recefs ; but the folemn... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...were a sort of lubberly supernaturals, who, like the Brownies, could be gained over by kind attention, to perform the drudgery of the farm, and it was believed that many of the families in the Highlands had one of the order attached to it. They were supposed to be dispersed... | |
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...were a sort of lubberly supernaturals, who, like the Brownies, could be gained over by kind attention, to perform the drudgery of the farm, and it was believed that many of the families in the Highlands had one of the order attached to it. They were supposed to be dispersed... | |
 | 1819 - 414 pages
...gained over hy kind attention, to perform the drudgery of the farm, and it was helieved that many of the fa'milies in the Highlands had one of the order attached to it. They were supposed to he dispersed over the Highlands, each in his own wild recess, hut the solemn... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...were a sort of lubberly supernatural, who, like the Brownies, could be gained over by kind attention, to perform the drudgery of the farm, and it was believed that many of the families in the Highlands had one of the order attached to it They were supposed to be dispersed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...a sort of lubberly supernatural*, who, like lite Brownies, could be gained over by kind Attention, to perform the drudgery of the farm, and it was believed that many of ihc families in the Highlands had one of the order attached to it. They were supposed to be dispersed... | |
 | James Browne - Clans - 1838 - 558 pages
...of mortal men and spirits, " were a sort of lubbary supernatural, who, like the brownies of England, could be gained over by kind attentions to perform...the Highlands had one of the order attached to it." ^ The urisks were supposed to live dispersed over the Highlands, each having his own wild recess ;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...over by \ kind attention, to perform the drudgery of the farm, audit was j believed that many of the \ They were supposed to be dispersed over the Highlands, each in his own wild recess, but the solemn... | |
 | Charles Rogers - Bridge of Allan (Scotland) - 1853 - 490 pages
...They were," writes Dr. Graham, " a sort of lubberly supernaturals, who like the brownies of England, could be gained over by kind attentions to perform...the highlands had one of the order attached to it."* They were believed to be scattered over the highlands, each dwelling in his own wild recess ; but their... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pages
...were a set of lubberly supernatural, who, like the Brownies, could be gained over, by kind attention, to perform the drudgery of the farm, and it was believed that many of the families in the Highlands had one of the order attached to it. They were supposed to be dispersed... | |
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... families in the Highlands had one of the order attached to it. They were supposed to be dispersed over the Highlands, each in his own wild recess, but the solemn stated meetings of the order were regularly held in this Cave of Benvenue. 
