How To Use Highlander In A Sentence
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Quickly, the Highlander sheathed his claymore and dropped his shield.
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Lord Kilian won't let a jumped-up highlander lord it over two experienced administrators like you and me.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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There was no remedy for what was called by Lord Lovat's friends, the "rascality" of the judges: -- and again this unworthy Highlander was driven from his own country to seek safety in the land wherein his offences had received their pardon.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
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How can you dislike a town where everybody jaywalks and the libramientos are known locally as the "other cemetary" and people drive in chaotic but workable distraction and many folks are short and fat and ridiculed by the overcompensating snobbish Highlanders as redneck morons and eating and drinking and dancing are local sports.
Driving From San Crist�bal de Las Casas to Lake Chapala
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Any list of bad sequels that does not list Highlander II as the all-time el-supremo undisputed champ of a stinking stinkeroo of a stinker is not the pixels used to post it.
EW's Top 25 Worst Sequels
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But whoever assumes this role, their supporters can at least derive succour from the infinite spirit of the Highlanders.
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In this case Highlander staff will invite the group to attend a residential video workshop at the Highlander Center.
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For their part, the dark-skinned highlanders were amazed to confront men so pale that they seemed like spirits of the dead.
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Highlanders used baldmoney or spignel to give food a spicy flavour and also chewed the roots as a stimulant and to relieve flatulence.
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I love most highlander stories, and the regency era is a close second.
Angels' Blood Countdown: Christine Wells - Wicked Little Game ARC
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He has a 151-foot ocean-going yacht, the Highlander, with a helicopter deck (even though it's been temporarily mothballed in deference to the dismal economy) and I don't.
A Beastly Pursuit, in Rhyme
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For many of these highlanders raising dairy cows is considered the best way to make a living, better than growing beans or other crops.
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The highlander who had missed his throw picked up his spear and stabbed the man in the back until he stopped moving.
Gideon’s war
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Highlanders called him, _Gow Chrom, _ that is, the bandy-legged smith -- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; -- so, "To fight for your own hand, like Henry Wynd," passed into a proverb.
Rob Roy — Complete
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Wynd -- or, as the Highlanders called him, _Gow Chrom_, that is, the bandy-legged smith -- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; -- so, 'To fight for your ain hand, like Henry Wynd,' passed into a proverb.
The Proverbs of Scotland
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Highlander's new range of daysacks use all of these qualities while still being functional, attractive urban designs.
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It was not, indeed, expected at that time, that Highlanders would attack cavalry in an open plain, though late events have shown that they may do so with success. supper a messan-dog --- sic awsome language as that I ne'er heard out o 'a human thrapple; --- and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended.
Rob Roy
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The irregular appearance and vanishing of these small parties of horsemen, as well as the confusion occasioned by those who endeavoured, though generally without effect, to press to the front through the crowd of Highlanders, maugre their curses, oaths, and opposition, added to the picturesque wildness what it took from the military regularity of the scene.
Waverley
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Finally, when military occupation of the entire valley proved unfeasible, the general decided to leave the lowlands to the southerners and to occupy all the highlands with his people, and in time the Highlanders became known as the Hakka, the Guest People, while the lowlanders were called the Punti, the Natives of the Land.
Hawaii
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They have a son Marcus, an Army major with the Highlanders regiment and a daughter, Susan, who lives in Devon.
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As a young officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he became adept at reels, strathspeys and sword dances.
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Nicknamed The Highlander, he had already caused a stir at the Games, dyeing his hair blue and white to resemble the saltire.
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We're out of it; they said the same about that New York team after game two of the World Series, and the Highlanders came back to win the whole shebang.
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Conversely, the highlanders had never before seen people who lived beyond their mountain valleys and plains.
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Highlander ye corner of Pall Mall, facing St. James's, Haymarket, "and says that the highlander was a favourite tobacconist's sign for 200 years.
The Social History of Smoking
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The highlanders, with their visible poverty and audible oddity of speech, met with a mixed reception and often sent home unfavourable reports.
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But it is very disagreeable to an Englishman over a bottle with the Highlanders, to see every one of them have his gilly, that is, his servant, standing behind him all the while, let what will be the subject of conversation.
The Lady of the Lake
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The oddest derivation of all is perhaps Plymouth Argyle, chosen because the two young men who started the club were impressed with the footballing prowess of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who were billeted in the town.
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The Uplander is non-insulated while the Highlander uses 24-ounce Mackinaw 100 percent virgin wool for insulation.
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In 1758 he published The Highlander, a heroic poem in six cantos.
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In this case Highlander staff will invite the group to attend a residential video workshop at the Highlander Center.
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The Highlanders love to use cold steel; the claymore was their old weapon, and the bayonet is its nearest equivalent in modern war.
A Minstrel in France
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[teuchter = stranger ... in this case "highlanders"] [Partick = a working class section of Glasgow]
The Welly Boot Song
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Hers are a Highlander's dreams: obviously, the tartan plaid and tam-o'-shanter evince Newberry's Scottish affinity.
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Drop the vehicle off at the coach garage next to the station and take the West Highlander to Glasgow.
CORMORANT
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emerged as a powerful force Technically, it is inaccurate to call the Armstrongs a “clan,” a designation reserved for Gaels from the Gaeltacht, that is, Highlanders, with a recognized chieftain-based dynasty thought to be descended from the heroes of the Celtic past and with customs and traditions of governance, law, and society all of their own.
First Man
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The highlights were thrilling interludes by "highlander" folk band Zakopower, led by charismatic singer-violinist Sebastian Karpiel-Bulecka, an energetic foil to Kennedy's wayward brilliance.
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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To the Highlanders the Targe was both a life preserving tool and a status symbol with ornate decorations.
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He still looks somewhat distrait, however, and retains that wild look in his eyes which in a Highlander would mean that he was "fey" -- at least so our chief engineer remarked to me, and he has some reputation among the Celtic portion of our crew as a seer and expounder of omens.
The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales
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His groom of the chambers had scarce lighted a pair of torches, and Montrose himself had scarce risen from his couch, when two men entered, one wearing a Lowland dress, of shamoy leather worn almost to tatters; the other a tall upright old Highlander, of a complexion which might be termed iron-grey, wasted and worn by frost and tempest.
A Legend of Montrose
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Meanwhile the Highlanders loosie has been cited following a swinging arm in a tackle during the game.
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Last year the Forbes family motor yacht, The Highlander, was put into dry dock, its crew laid off.
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They can't raise taxes any more without risking uprisings among the peasants and Highlanders.
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a knife the Scotch highlanders call a skean-dhu, sharp-pointed as a needle, sharp-edged as a razor, and with one blow of it he had cleft her heart, and she never cried or laughed any more in that body whose charms she had degraded to the vile servitude of her vanity.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate
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This was 1898, Edinburgh, a dreadful hotchpotch of thistles, tartan hatching, drooping highlanders, wounded stags.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Explorers were followed by Christian missionaries intent on imposing Western political and economic practices and religious beliefs on the highlanders.
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My certy, ye dinna let the grass grow under your feet," said the Highlander; and he added, "If ye want to run errands, laddie, ye can come back again.
Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough
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My father was a full-blooded Highlander, with the temper to prove it.
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The veteran frontman got the clincher with a typical effort in the 51st minute to kill off the Highlanders’ challenge.
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Judge, then, the wicked zest with which the Highlander's crew now shuffled and dealt the pack; and how the interest curiously and invertedly increased, as the stakes necessarily became less and less; and finally resolved themselves into "chaws.
Redburn. His First Voyage
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The cannonading grew, as the Russians turned their guns southward, I saw columns of earth ploughed up to the east of the Highlanders 'position, and with my heart in my mouth I buried my head in the horse's mane and fairly flew across the turf.
The Sky Writer
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Highlanders called him, Gow Chrom, that is, the bandy-legged smith --- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; --- so, ` ` To fight for your own hand, like
Rob Roy
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As I had already destined my old landlady to be my house-keeper and governante, knowing her honesty, good-nature, and, although a Scotchwoman, her cleanliness and excellent temper (saving the short and hasty expressions of anger which Highlanders call a FUFF), I now proposed the plan to her in such a way as was likely to make it most acceptable.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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He used the city as his headquarters for the next week while he and his men scoured the nearby mountains for rebellious Cilician highlanders.
Alexander the Great
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A hybrid version of the Toyota Highlander employing the same technology will debut next year.
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Montrose was charming and gallant, a superb natural soldier with a rare ability to get the best out of his tiny army of ill-equipped Highlanders.
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January 11th, 2007 at 4: 56 pm it will never compare to the origianal. adrian paul is cool and all but chris lamburt and sean conor ruled and the kurgan was awsome and all the queen music. for its day highlander 1 ruled!
Highlander: The Source - SciFiChick.com
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No "wee drappie" ever cheered the heart of Scotsman as did the quarts of Modder that went down the throats of thirsty Highlanders who had been toasted inside and out during the long hours of the battle.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
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Lord Kilian won't let a jumped-up highlander lord it over two experienced administrators like you and me.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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I tell thee, Alan, I have seen a better seated on the fourth round of a ladder, and painting a bare-breeched Highlander, holding a pint-stoup as big as himself, and a booted Lowlander, in a bobwig, supporting a glass of like dimensions; the whole being designed to represent the sign of the Salutation.
Redgauntlet
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Highlanders created a much wider array of networks for themselves than did lowlanders, crossing political and parochial borders in their migrations, marriages, and criminal collusion.
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This pleased Ritchie, who can don his kilt by claiming Scottish kin in the form of a grandfather who served in the Seaforth Highlanders.
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I have already dug out some Beja I had based but not undercoated for working on this weekend and I will get going on some more Highlanders too.
Archive 2009-07-01
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There are records of cheesemakers is the Scottish Highlanders, Cheshire and Gloucestershire using Lady's Bedstraw to curdle milk and colour their cheese.
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Scotch Highlanders, it consists of many folds of airy white material that protrude in the fanciful manner of the stage costume of a coryphee.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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I came past Suwalki as they were moving up, column after column, in gray overcoats aswing in the rhythm of their stride, like the kilts of Highlanders.
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915
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After fierce fighting the Mahratta front line on the British left was broken by the 78th Highlanders, majestic giants in kilts and feathered bonnets.
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Drop the vehicle off at the coach garage next to the station and take the West Highlander to Glasgow.
CORMORANT
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Anthropologist Paul Sillitoe learnt about stone tool use from Papua New Guinea highlanders in 1983.
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With research partners at the Center for Research on Women (CROW) at the University of Memphis and the Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee focusing on the state of Tennessee, the SRC is focused in the urban center of metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia.
Race and Nation: Bridging Racial and Ethnic Communities
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In addition to this, many of the residential workshops at Highlander have been recorded on video, and make hours of fascinating viewing.
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HARTFORD - Joe DuCharme and Kevin Laflamme scored for Harwood in the Highlanders '4-2 boys hockey loss to Hartford on Saturday.
RutlandHerald.com
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A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Where land is life, highlanders turn mountainsides into terraced fields.
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The basic ideas dominating the educational philosophy of Highlander are two-fold.
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The present Duke of Atholl, like his ancestors before him, has the rare right of being able to muster his own private army, the Atholl Highlanders.
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My difficulty with the Black Colonel was still more complicated, for it was as if a hair-rope of many strands, such as the Highlanders made, enwound us.
The Black Colonel
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Highlanders originally wore a stretch of plaid, often vegetable dyed, that was draped and pleated to form a skirt with pockets.
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A Highlander in full regalia is an impressive sight-any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Indeed, the figure of Major Dalgetty alone, sheathed in impenetrable armour, and making his horse caracole and bound, so as to give weight to every blow which he struck, would have been a novelty in itself sufficient to terrify those who had never seen anything more nearly resembling such a cavalier, than a SHELTY waddling under a Highlander far bigger than itself.
A Legend of Montrose
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With a blast of bagpipes, the 78th Fraser Highlanders march out a side door, Scottish backswords raised, and solemnly lead His Royal Highness into the Winter Garden Show.
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Highlanders; (quaere, Alan, dost thou derive the courage thou makest such boast of from an hereditary source?) and stories of Rob Roy Macgregor, and
Redgauntlet
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We caught a Japanese exhibition about time, with all sorts of weird shit, took the elevator up to the umpty-umpth floor and looked out over the city, bought some sheep's cheese (a "highlander" staple) from a stall and ate it over a few beers before my interview with TVP, only the Polish equivalent of BBC for crying out loud, in another branch of EMPiK.
Archive 2006-10-01
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Perhaps it is my contrary Scottish highlander nature, but I see the scoring change as a very positive step for the professional game, if a little overdue.
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Hers are a Highlander's dreams: obviously, the tartan plaid and tam-o'-shanter evince his Scottish affinity.
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As a young officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he became adept at reels, strathspeys and sword dances.
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The modern commercial nation to which Ferguson belongs, as a British subject, a Highlander by birth but one born too late to claim to be the scion of an independent Scotland, in fact typifies a state in which the press of numbers and the extent of territory have begun to make the bonds of society inapprehensible.
Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union
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Note that in HIGHLANDER Macleod's transition to liminality is made explicit in his exile from his clan.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
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Deans has named an unchanged side from the one which beat the Otago Highlanders in last week's semi-final.
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The quantity of alcohol consumed by southern highlanders was, by all accounts, stunning.
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The Highlanders, well known for ready hatchet men, had constructed a long arbour or silvan banqueting room, capable of receiving two hundred men, while a number of smaller huts around seemed intended for sleeping apartments.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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However, had we, like the Highlanders in aftermath of the 1745 rebellion, been told we were not allowed to wear the kilt, we might well have gone ahead and done so out of sheer cussedness.
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Highlanders originally wore a stretch of plaid, often vegetable dyed, that was draped and pleated to form a skirt with pockets.
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Gurkhas and Scots Highlanders have always had a close mutual affinity and the Gurkha bagpipe and diced bonnet are directly drawn from those of their comrades.
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But whoever assumes this role, their supporters can at least derive succour from the infinite spirit of the Highlanders.
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I'd love to live in Scotland in medieval time, in a big castle with a sexy highlander.
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 5 Days to Go!
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He looked questioningly at the old highlander, wondering if his men understood.
Gideon’s war
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Maybe the 'carl' did na like the pipes," said the highlander musingly, as he packed them up for his march.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 6
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Highlanders (those living inland, particularly in mountain areas) tend to see lowlanders (those living in the cities and towns around the coast) as untrustworthy and Westernized.
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Once ingested, they provided a big boost to Highlanders in battle or in the fields, as well as preventing thirst and hunger pangs.
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Highlanders, had moved out from Wittekopslaager about 5 A.M., breakfastless, because it was thought that on reaching the river, which was but a short march of five miles off, there would be ample time for a meal.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
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But it is very disagreeable to an Englishman over a bottle with the Highlanders, to see every one of them have his gilly, that is, his servant, standing behind him all the while, let what will be the subject of conversation.”
The Lady of the Lake
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Scotland is a deeply divided society: Catholic versus Protestant, highlander against lowlander, urban versus rural, Gaelic versus Anglophone, rectitude versus licence, welfare dependents versus a strong entrepreneurial tradition.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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And before us fled Indian and Tory, yager and renegade, Greens, Rangers, Highlanders, officers galloping madly, baggage-wagons smashed, horses down, camp trampled to tatters and splinters as the vengeance of Tryon County passed in a tornado of fury that cleansed the land forever of Walter Butler and his demons of the
The Reckoning
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Marcus called Alwyn a stuck-up millionaire, and Alwyn retorted by telling him that he was as proud as a Highlander, and then
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
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I find Mrs. Strange [Highlanders] will readly except of any offer from Rosenberge [King of Sweden] as that negotiant can easily evade paying duty for any wine he sends hir.
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
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A smaller number of Peru's indigenous highlanders, probably about half a million, speak Aymará, the language of a tribe conquered by the Incas.
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Sealed in their Gaelic oral tradition, the Highlanders themselves had little need of a bookish literature, but two great writers were to make them a topic of universal human interest.
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In Jacobite times, targes were the highlanders' main means of defence in battle.
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He would apply to the service of war a device employed by the Highlanders in the chase, and put in practice against them their own tactics of the tinchel. [
Claverhouse
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Highlanders have used it through the ages to help them perform great feats of strength while staving off hunger and thirst.
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In repose the Highlander's eye was as clear as a cairngorm and as cold, but when it fell upon John Broom it took a twinkle not quite unlike the twinkle in the one eye of the sailor; and then, to his amazement, this grand creature beckoned to John Broom with a rather dirty hand.
Tales from Many Sources Vol. V
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After the violent clearing of people from the Scottish Highlands to make room for sheep, many Highlanders were forced to migrate to Canada to work as lumberjacks or were recruited into the British army to fight in the new colonies.
