How To Use Amish In A Sentence
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It was dreadful, because if people are famished and dying you have to do intensive feeding seven or eight times a day.
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For a squeamish diary writer it was enough to send me to the editor's well-stocked drinks cabinet for a nip of his favourite barley wine.
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Moravians, Mennonites, Amish, Schwenkfelders, Dunkers, and other German groups, including Rosicrucians, would flourish there.
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We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt.
Arabian nights. English
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I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles.
The second part of King Henry the Fourth
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I was beginning to feel a little famished with all the smiling, dancing and chit-chatting, so I excused myself from my little group of friends to get myself some edible delicacies from the buffet table.
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More generally, it’s the expression to be defined, as opposed to the definiens, which is the phrase doing the defining.beamishQuote
The Volokh Conspiracy » Definiendum
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In about eight miles of Lancaster, there are about 25,000 Amish living in seclusion.
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1. 4Lady Macbeth speaks in soliloquy about driving a implicitly squeamish Mac. to seize a throne.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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In the past couple of decades women have become noticeably less squeamish than men - so much so that feminine frankness has become hard to avoid.
Times, Sunday Times
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In both cases, you probably become famished and are more likely to make poor food choices and overindulge, says Walls.
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But when you're famished in subzero temperatures, you're likely to consume it before it's fully rehydrated - making it harder to digest.
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I was beginning to feel a little famished with all the smiling, dancing and chit-chatting, so I excused myself from my little group of friends to get myself some edible delicacies from the buffet table.
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But at least the liberal men should feel squeamish about it.
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Sally Beamish was born in London and could read and write music by the age of four.
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I've had nothing since supper at about 19.00 hours last night except a cup of coffee, and I'm famished.
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
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Peach escapes narrowly to design another day although her pink polka dot snore of a dress (even she admitted earlier it looked like "Barbie's sofa") is called "matronly" by the judges and like "an Amish cocktail dress" by MK (his lines are doubling me over so far this season).
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Season 8, Episodes 1 and 2
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Places (we often called them that instead of farms) that I knew about all had either stairs or backstairs to the servants quarters, so I was quite surprised to see that at Beamish ladders had been the order of the day.
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The battle we really are engaged in - and we are too squeamish to describe - is against a particular brand of fundamentalism.
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Since we were all famished and couldn't wait to get to a restaurant, the rest of us stayed in the van while Ramon went inside to get his brother.
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A sated man loathes honey, But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.
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Neither is likely to be squeamish about investing in coal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oddly, eating meat didn't make me feel squeamish or sick.
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With the speed of an eagle, Hamish darted up the acclivity, and stood by the minister of Glenorquhy, who was pacing out thus early to administer consolation to a distressed family near Bunawe.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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This isn’t because of some desire to protect locals-only knowledge (if the number of other dog-walkers, mountain bikers, and equestrians is any indicator, these are far from secret trails), I was just following the group blindly and honestly don’t know where I was in greater detail than “Redmond, east of the Sammamish river.”
The Trails of Redmond « PubliCola
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The sky was a kind of famished blue, insufficiently dressed with a few stretches of muslin clouds.
Archive 2007-11-01
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We get squeamish when it comes to reproductive rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amish communities are known for their strong question Christian beliefs.
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Then the judge told Mr Beamish what was the maximum penalty for contempt of court.
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His contraption, patented in 1979, catches birds, which fly into a little house with a false floor attached to a downspout and dispenses them uninjured to a cage below, where famished felines move in for the kill.
The Kookiest Inventions
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That was the first squeamishness the Pathan had shown of any kind, but men of his race would rather be tortured to death than hanged in a merciful hempen noose.
In The Time Of Light
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The rope dug into her flesh, her stomach, causing her to become further aware of how famished she was.
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I pushed my famished, ravaged body onwards.
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One peer at least tied a capon in his handkerchief and tossed it up to his famished family.
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The idea of individual artisanship is not something that operates in the Amish culture.
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These symbols of solidarity circumscribe the Amish world and bridle the forces of assimilation.
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If you call my collie a ` lang tyke, 'Hamish, I'll set him at you.
Steve Young
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Surprisingly, there are no Amish groups today in Europe.
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A retrospective exhibition of the work of Hamish Fulton is at Tate Britain until 4 June.
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If you have a high squeamish factor and still wish to buy pre-owned, examine the mattress carefully for the telltale signs of infestation, and place it in a protective encasement before you bring it into your home.
Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Used Mattresses - Icky Or Eco?
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But Ross and Beamish, who had both enjoyed distinguished careers in the whisky industry, had a plan.
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She gave them coffee, krout, and potato pickles, which are never eaten but by famished men, and for once they were a luxury.
Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
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It's clear that if the regime thinks it can get away with murdering foreign journalists it won't be squeamish about dealing with its internal opposition.
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By the time Edward returned with a tray of beer-cans the fire was blazing with famished enthusiasm.
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I also cited corroboratory reports by the head of the Gaza observer force, Lt. - Col. R.F. Bayard of the US army, and by the editor of Al Hamishmar, Mark Gefen, who was an eyewitness to atrocities including wanton killing, for example, the murder of a doctor at Gaza hospital by an Israeli soldier.
Chomsky's 'Fateful Triangle': An Exchange
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'The Silence of the Lambs' is an entertaining but violent movie and is not for the squeamish.
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If you're squeamish about a bit of grit, best wait until the revival has spread its gloss a little more widely.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you're squeamish about insects, skip this story.
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On her easel is the Amish girl being hit by the car.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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It was evident that when the goblin girl said "famished" she meant very hungry indeed.
Dragon on a Pedestal
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Now, one of the side-effects of how Mennonite and Amish culture works, is that nonconformists/those who are “too curious” end up eventually being completely shunned and ostracized from the entire community.
Blocking the information highway
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Ideal World, the company she runs with her husband, Hamish, is the largest independent TV production company in Scotland.
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What matters more than obsessing over details is being clear that you will not be bound by squeamish political correctness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Old Order Amish — the most traditional of the Pennsylvania Dutch communities — are unusual in many ways.
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Weary, famished and despairing at the end of 1846, the peasants of one of the most famine-ravaged counties in the country hoped for better things in the coming year.
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Oh well, I'm famished and a good meal is what I need.
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All things considered, perhaps it was more tasteful and less squeamish to leave them out altogether.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was beginning to feel a little famished with all the smiling, dancing and chit-chatting, so I excused myself from my little group of friends to get myself some edible delicacies from the buffet table.
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Shot Hamish has the radge on because Daddie has sold one of his sheep, and powers straight down the pitch before welting one into the net.
The Guardian World News
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For since thy good works, not thy goods will follow thee; since riches are an appurtenance of life, and no dead man is rich, to famish in plenty, and live poorly to die rich, were
Letter to a Friend
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I feel certain, for instance, that he would not have come out with anything so beamish.
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I'm not joking, but I could not work out how†"until eventually I stumbled upon my inventory (I'm not even sure how) and finally made him reach the state of" famished "rather than starving.
GameSetWatch
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In order to tell a story, there must be some elbowroom, some breathing space, some hcense - otherwise you become as squeamish as a vegetarian.
An Autobiography
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To defend against the higher standard implied by the first … and while from an American neocon, this would be to defend the IDF from being judged by the same standard, but in other circles around the world it might be to defend Hamas from being held to the same standard demanded of the IDF … jump up and down and pretend that it should be understood as saying the second. beamish Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Lacking in Prosal Clarity
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they were tired and famished for food and sleep
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There are any number of French restaurateurs who will give "famished" Americans exactly what they're used to - after all, a euro is a euro is a euro.
Chicagotribune.com -
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So that is also pretty good evidence that the financial system is no longer the constraint. beamish says:
Matthew Yglesias » Belated Treasury Meeting Blogging
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She'd had no sleep the night before and she was famished.
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In the first scene, the First Citizen describes the Senate the 1% of ancient Rome: They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor.
What Shakespeare Thought About the 1%
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Our predecessors, as journalists and readers, were far less squeamish.
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I oppose the death penalty, but not for Stephen's squeamish reasons that one innocent person in 100 might get hanged, My opposition is more visceral than that.
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If you're squeamish or easily offended, this one is a lock to knock you off the deep end, as Daughters of Darkness is bathed in depraved moments.
GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 11/1.
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Haas, now a gangly young adult, appears to still be acting with Amish reserve.
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Even forms of polyamory and open, 'monogamish' arrangements are, slowly, becoming less marginal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only superficial traits that set the Amish apart from the ‘normals ‘are their thick horse-and-buggy accents and the fact that they all cop to having limited educations.’
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Their experience finds a compelling representative in Leymah Gbowee, who recalled her famished
StarTribune.com rss feed
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Talking face to face, it was clear that Peter Brett was burning with internal rage about these proceedings, and about Beamish's fate.
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‘I'm never squeamish and I don't usually get upset when I see a body,’ she says.
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He looks famished and dishevelled and in no way gainfully employed.
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Blackpool pub landlord Hamish Howitt, 55, who is an anti-smoking ban campaigner, is promising to stand up for working class smokers, while the Cleethorpes-based Generalist Party and The Official Monster Raving Loony Party have also announced their intention to field candidates.
Archive 2008-06-01
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In consequence of this custom the females of this race, to quote an old English authority, had a "waddling, lamish gesture in their going.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Jordan said: ‘It looked famished and was a bit unsteady on its feet.’
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Bevel wore a feathered porkpie hat and an uneven beard -- both of which made him look like a member of a lost, dark-skinned Amish tribe.
Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2)
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The first few minutes were spent concentrating on the food, for the women were famished.
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If you saw this film, you're probably still squeamish about committing family activities to video tape.
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At about 16 miles I caught up with Hamish from Forfar and we ran together from there to the end, setting the world to rights and casting judgement on anything and everything.
Lochaber Marathon
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Even the odor of my Calcutta washerman, redolent with the fragrance of castor oil, was too much for my unchastised squeamishness; and as to assafoetida, the favorite condiment of our Aryan cousins, I was so uncatholic as to bring away from India the same aversion to it that I had carried out there.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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In short, they are not squeamish or unduly troubled by conscience when it comes to hurting us two-legged animals.
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so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow
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‘Soup and bouilli will do,’ replied the halffamished prisoner; ‘but let us have a large piece of beef, a gallon of soup, and ten pounds of bread, with beer in proportion.’
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But Wood said the province is blowing the safety issue out of proportion on the stretch of road that connects with West Vancouver and that 80 per cent of the accidents are at signalized intersections in Whistler and Squamish.
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Beamish H, Williams R, Chen P, Lavin M. F (1996) Defect in multiple cell cycle checkpoints in ataxia-telangiectasia postirradiation.
PLoS Biology: New Articles
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What poor hosts we have become if we do not offer to assuage her hunger, for surely she must be famished by now.
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↑ This practice is usually referred to as shunning, but because Bahá'ís can conduct business transactions with Covenant breakers, the practice is not same as shunning by Amish and some other groups, which is total.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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Haas, now a gangly young adult, appears to still be acting with Amish reserve.
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Once I even got to hang around backstage, but felt rather squeamish about being the hundredth idiot to say, "Gee, I like your music".
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Uncle Hamish was already rising from his seat, looking positively twinkly with health and good cheer.
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If that weren't true, I may have squeamishly helped out at Special Olympics once or twice.
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But why be squeamish about fine points and legal niceties when we're at war?
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I am actually quite squeamish and don't like the sight of blood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Boy, I'm famished… can we stop at a café and eat before we meet up with Tamika?
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Beamish is one of the best-known names in classical music, and Britain's most prolific composer of concertos.
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In other matters he was less squeamish.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have no squeamishness whatever about his watching their own natatorial duties; why, then, should he shrink within himself and wave them off?
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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‘It was very well made, but not for the squeamish,’ he said.
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The NeoAmish, for example, live in polyandrous families (_polyandrous_ was in our vocabulary list last month) because of the scarcity of women.
Who Do You Say I Am
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The Indian side appeared famished for most part of the tournament, an outfit that seemed to have sloughed off its competitive edge.
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But, til then, here he will stay, and neither quit the spot whence he sends you these lines, till you have deigned to pronounce verbally his doom, though he should famish for want of food!
Camilla
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We have become squeamish about bones and fat but they are things to relish when roasting.
The Sun
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`I would rather not touch,' he said squeamishly
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The public needs to be realistic about what they are paying for and less squeamish in how it is presented.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several ancient men in worn and baggy clothes sit at separate tables drinking neat whiskey and half pints of Beamish.
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This is why unlimited leverage is so important. beamish says:
Matthew Yglesias » Ketchup Economics
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I don't even want to think about what the soils conditions are at the Duwamish River (aka Green River, aka White River) where outwash from the Green River Valley, and hence Mount Rainier's ancient mudflows, has deposited itself in an ancient alluvial fan in Elliot Bay -- constrained by the West Seattle highlands on the west and the ridge that separates the Sound from Lake Washington.
Sound Politics: "The heavyweight fight for the waterfront"
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'The Silence of the Lambs' is an entertaining but violent movie and is not for the squeamish.
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Most Africans have a very close relationship with the land, even the city people, who are squeamish about bugs and scared to death of gorillas.
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You'll have to tell me about your night our with Hamish - I want a blow-by-blow account!
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In many ways a more subdued Todd, with many earmarks of a classic village mystery and less byplay from Hamish, the ghost who haunts Rutledge.
A Matter of Justice by Charles Todd: Book summary
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Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
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‘We'll have to think about transferring some suspects to our less squeamish allies,’ he says.
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Just two hours from the city, the heart of Amish country-known for shoofly pie and schnitzel-is calling my name.
Monique Stringfellow: It's Daytripping Season
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Could they listen to the plea of reason who had groaned under the calamities of a social state, according to the provisions of which one man riots in luxury whilst another famishes for want of bread?
The Revolt of Islam
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Central agencies use blotting paper and distilled water to remove the salt accretions and clear the micropores on the rock tablets, which is why visitors see a creamish mush plastered on the walls.
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Neither is likely to be squeamish about investing in coal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Stross explained that Google's goal is to feed information to the company's servers like they are some kind of famished beasts: "It has reached out to claim as many books as it can get hold of, as many videos as its users would like to submit, as many different kinds of maps as can be overlaid upon the earth and the sky, and as many of the documents that computer users routinely create for home, office, and school.
Home | The New York Observer
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The series, which is designed for budding adventure racers, will continue in Squamish on April 25 with a tri-sport event at Alice Lake.
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I've heard of guys that had killed a man feelin 'squeamish over it -- with ghosts visitin' them at night; an 'sufferin' a lot of mental torture.
'Drag' Harlan
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Indeed, like Icky Vicky, the Evoque has a kind of sawed-off, famished look.
Range Rover: Still King of the Hill
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Neither is likely to be squeamish about investing in coal.
Times, Sunday Times
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“But a man like that could be a murderee,” Hamish pointed out.
Death of a Charming Man
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AVE you ever sailed around Point Grey? asked a young Squamish tillicum of mine who often comes to see me, to share a cup of tea and a taste of muck-a-muck that otherwise I should eat in solitude.
Legends of Vancouver
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I can only note that the English-language press is far more squeamish about publishing grisly images than their continental European cousins.
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The Amish, for example, are more likely to carry a genetic mutation for a condition called polydactyly, which causes extra fingers or toes.
In Our Blood
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They might get squeamish at the sight of blood or faint when thinking about it or are looking at it.
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He visits the Amish for lessons in adopting technology.
'What Technology Wants' Tracks The Tech Evolution
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We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen’d such squeamishness in Attic salt.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I'm really quite squeamish about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am actually quite squeamish and don't like the sight of blood.
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I desire that thou bring me a tray of food like unto that thou broughtest me erewhiles, for indeed I am famisht.
Arabian nights. English
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She was forbidden to have her photograph taken because of her strict Amish upbringing.
The Sun
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Heyday! but here is an odd evincement of gratitude!" de Montors retorted; "and though I am not particularly squeamish, let me tell you, my fine fellow, I do not ordinarily fight with lackeys.
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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Hamish had an affair with Francesca, a very beautiful woman with an even more beautiful, if steatopygous anus, who made a habit of going out with older men.
Heartbreak by Craig Raine
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The corner walls were primarily glass and, twenty stories down, the east side of St. Paul spread to the horizon like an Amish autumn quilt.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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She's really squeamish and can't stand the sight of blood.
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he refused to allow squeamishness to deter him from his duty
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That system of labor which saps the health, and shortens life, and famishes intellect, needs, and must receive, great modification.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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He is clearly a bit squeamish.
The Sun
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Faecal matter and toilet paper are never shown, perhaps reflecting American squeamishness, though evidence of anal intercourse and vaginal bruising is spoken of like tennis scores.
Archive 2005-07-01
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It seems oversubtle to charge me with "squeamishness" when I have admitted to finding Miss Blais's horror stories "ludicrous.
Exorcising Demons
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Frightened, the boy ran; but famished as he was, he did not run far and lingered next to a shop where the apples were still in sight.
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Most of us assume that the Amish deplore all modern things; after all, they travel in horse-driven buggies and shun electricity.
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And you complained about our “sissiness” while simultaneously admitting that you let your squeamishness set your politics.
Homophobic men and Misogyny–do they go hand in hand?
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What was it like shifting gears from pulpier fare like Black Forest, Wicked West, and Faceless to this relatively subdued, more mainstreamish brand of horror?
Archive 2009-02-22
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She's really squeamish and can't stand the sight of blood.
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Nay, the latter are the more harmless wild beasts; for they only cranch a poor traveller now and then, and when they are famished with hunger: the others, though they have dined, cut the throats of some hundreds of poor
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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She's really squeamish and can't stand the sight of blood.
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A hand brushing her brow, she continued, `Oh, how dost foul famish fatigue me.
THE MANANA MAN
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To heighten the tension, the Amish group is dressed in traditional attire that includes bonnets and suspenders.
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Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life
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While much of the population understandably gets squeamish at the idea of businesses making money out of the elderly and the disadvantaged, there is a market that has to be served.
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Could they listen to the plea of reason who had groaned under the calamities of a social state according to the provisions of which one man riots in luxury whilst another famishes for want of bread?
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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That hasn't ended collisions between the Amish and the law:•In a case pending in the Kentucky Court of Appeals, a group of Amish men say a state law requiring them to put triangular slow-moving vehicle signs on their horse-drawn buggies violates their religious freedom.
Amish, state laws face conflicts
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To be sure, it's no sort of a place for a squeamish person, aboard a loaded schooner whose mudhook clutches bottom while the sea flings her about, but the masters and crews of coal-luggers are not squeamish.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
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He was an editor who hated screen violence, and vulgarisms - ‘squeamish’, she called him - and there were constant battles over her copy.
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She and her three brothers lived in a large two-story house in a middle-class neighborhood set amid Amish farmland.
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He is a pyrotechnically good critic, not least because he is not squeamish about putting himself in the picture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Speaking of being hungry for Greek, get me to the nearest falafel stand - I'm famished!
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Among my most treasured possessions is a set of classic recordings, each and every one of which was lovingly compiled for me years ago on cassettes from the original gramophone records in the collection of my elder brother Hamish.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Thomson accepts, however, that the British are still somewhat squeamish about the sight of the very rich being congratulated about doing good.
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Just as beamish were the Greek election winners, the royalist Populist Party, led by Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris.
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Hamish wrote on unheeding, squarish writing, hard pencil.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Between one and three percent of the Amish people of Lancaster County Pennsylvania are believed to be unaffected carriers of the disease, having just one copy of the altered gene.
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As most of you know, I am extremely squeamish, so I spent the appointment trying to read my book (naturally) while the chiropodist was working.
ME Again « Tales from the Reading Room
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They may have hankered for love, fame, and wisdom, but what they hungered to be given was experience ” and both found that the giving famishes the craving.
That Old Identity Game
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Penguin imprints include Michael Joseph, Allen Lane, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, and a good few more.
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In Squamish, cougar and bear sightings continue to increase as the animals' nearby natural habitat continues to decrease.
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I'm famished too and was just waiting on you slowpokes.
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Many famished in the countryside during the drought
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Maybe the Amish are much smarter than most people think, self sufficiency is a very important quality to posses, Our elected leaders should think about the U.S. losings its self sufficiency in its rotten free trade agreements.
USA's Economic Disaster Tsunami Is Under Way. Ordinary Solutions Won't Work to Save Us
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Anyway, your tea is very pleasant - although I do find that it makes me utterly famished; if I'm dunking I need an entire pack of digestives.
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It being now settled to my satisfaction, that Mr. Beamish and the great uncloaked were "convertible terms," I set about making the 'amende' in the most handsome manner possible.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1
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You'll have to tell me about your night our with Hamish - I want a blow-by-blow account!
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Now I might just warn you girls, if you are squeamish and don't like the sight of men in the raw, then don't bother to check the link.
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A pleasant-faced woman, wearing a green dress and the traditional Amish cap and apron, opened the door.
THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL
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One day Esau returns from the countryside, exhausted and famished, to find his brother Jacob cooking a stew.
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Is there anyone else who is squeamish about this sort of public investigation into a nominee's personal religious beliefs?
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My plans for Hamish had been vaguely incorporeal: I had imagined him following me around, unbodied, free of want, but as soon as we arrived Lisa had placed him implacably under her own jurisdiction, like an empire appropriating a small, suitable colony. — from In the Fold, by Rachel Cusk (Little, Brown)
A Close Read
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I was absolutely famished but could not manage more than a third of the serving.
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In their boasts, dissidents are lady-killers; in their writings, they are squeamish, priggish, and prudish.
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And forasmuch as I discern'd; with some Degree of Curiosity, that the Sand was every where less hollow'd by one Foot in particular, than by the other three, I conceiv'd that the Bitch of our most august Queen was somewhat lamish, if I may presume to say so.
Zadig Or, The Book of Fate
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I remember well that Hamish found the whole process distasteful and destructive.
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The Roman soldiers waited year after year until they knew that the people were famished and then they rushed in and slaughtered them by the thousands.
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He is so hungry, so thirsty, so famished without me, she thinks.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Most folks I know get happy birds from one of the local Hutterite or Amish colonies in the area.
Will you be having turkey on Thursday? « Dating Jesus
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This mad project of Hamish's at which he would have laughed in a saner mood, began to intertwist itself with all these passionate longings and these troubled dreams of what might yet be possible to him on earth; and wherever he turned it was suggested to him; and whatever was the craving and desire of the moment, this, and this only, was the way to reach it.
Macleod of Dare
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My young companions, who, as I have observed, had only preceded me six months in the service, were already grown old in depravity; they laughed at my squeamishness, called me "milksop" and "boarding-school miss," and soon made me as bad as themselves.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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Fiftyish, 350-pound art dealers in suits ‘eat’ huge banquet spreads, gorging themselves with the sloppy abandon of famished Vikings, only to discover the food is merely a hallucination.
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But the love of farming runs deep in the Amish heart.
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Odd choices for January, but her girl is beamishly proud.
Literary Mama: Literary Mama Home
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May their souls dwell in the downmost hall of perdition!" said Hamish, with his cheeks becoming a gray-white; "and every woman that ever came of the accursed race!
Macleod of Dare
