 | Scottish border - 1869 - Liczba stron: 624
...freebooter and a thief. And thus sings he of the Armstrongs : On that border was the Armstrongs, able men, Somewhat unruly and very ill to tame. I would have...them thieves, For, if I did, it would be arrant lies. • • • . • Near a border frontier, in the time of war, There's ne'er a man but he's a freebooter.... | |
 | 1873 - Liczba stron: 838
...a thief ; and thus sings he of the Armstrongs : — " On that Border was the Armstrongs, able men ; Somewhat unruly, and very ill to tame. I would have...that I call them thieves, For, if I did, it would he arrant lies. Near a Border frontier, in the time of war, There's ne'er a man hut he's a freebooter.... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1887 - Liczba stron: 690
...Armstrongs, puts it : — "Somewhat unruly, and very ill to tiuue ; I would have none think that 1 call them thieves; For if I did, it would be arrant...all Frontiers, and Borders, I observe, Wherever they lie, are Freebooters, And does the cnrwy much more harms, 'Than live thousand marshal-men in arms ;... | |
 | Michael Aislabie Denham - 1892 - Liczba stron: 388
...prisoner. The kings of Scotland disowned them as subjects. " On that Border was the Armstrongs, able men, Somewhat unruly and very ill to tame. I would have...thieves, For, if I did, it would be arrant lies." Satchell's History of the Name of Scott. The above author would gladly make it appear that a reiver... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1915 - Liczba stron: 322
...following :— " On that border was the Ärmst rangs able men. Somewhat unruly, nnd very ill to tame, 1 would have none think that I call them thieves,. For...Frontiers and Borders, I observe. Wherever they ly, are Free-!x>oters." And also the modern lay by JPW — Stark Border reivers wild and rude. Ready alike... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1902 - Liczba stron: 432
...a thief ; and thus sings he of the Armstrongs : — ' On that Border was the Armstrongs, able men ; Somewhat unruly, and very ill to tame. I would have...them thieves, For, if I did, it would be arrant lies. Near a Border frontier, in the time of war, There 's ne'er a man but he 's a. freebooter. Because to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1902 - Liczba stron: 442
...a thief; and thus sings he of the Armstrongs : — ' On that Border was the Armstrongs, ahle men ; Somewhat unruly, and very ill to tame. I would have...that I call them thieves, For, if I did, it would he arrant lies. Near a Border frontier, in the time of war, There 's ne'er a man hut he 'sa freehooter.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1902 - Liczba stron: 432
...a thief; and thus sings he of the Armstrongs : — ' On that Border was the Armstrongs, able men ; Somewhat unruly, and very ill to tame. I would have none think that I call them thieves, For, if 1 did, it would be arrant lies. Near a Border frontier, in the time of war, There 's ne'er a man but... | |
 | Howard Pease - 1913 - Liczba stron: 306
...on either side regarded the vocation of raiding and reiving as an art, a rougher sort of hunting. ' I would have none think that I call them Thieves ; For if I did it would be arrant lies.' So Captain Walter Scot of Satchel wrote in the seventeenth century of the Armstrongs, and regarding... | |
 | James Elton Bell, Frances Jean Bell - 2007 - Liczba stron: 210
...Satchell, however, draws a distinction; and the Bells, like the Armstrongs, may have merely been "Able men Somewhat unruly, and very ill to tame, I would have...them thieves, For if I did it would be arrant lies. Near a border frontier in the time of war, There's ne'er a man but he's a freebooter. " The reprisals... | |
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Somewhat unruly, and very ill to tame. I would have none think that I call them thieves, For, if I did, it would be arrant lies. 
