 | 1829 - 612 pages
...intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in...goats and sheep, and drove them off to the garrison. ' Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number of persons murdered was thirty-eight ; those... | |
 | Walter Scott - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1829 - 374 pages
...intercepted and destroyed all those whp took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in...collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelv hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and sheep, and drove them off to the garrison... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1829 - 360 pages
...intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in...they slew ; and after burning such houses as were yet nn-• consumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 296 pages
...intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement 'arrived so late as eleven in...save an old man of eighty, whom they slew ; and after hurning such houses as were yet unconsumed, they collected the property of the trihe, consisting of... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1842 - 672 pages
...intercepted and destroyed a/7 those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in...goats and sheep, and drove them off to the garrison. • twelve miles through rocks and wildernesses, ere they could reach any place of safety oir shelter.... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
...intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenl) on and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in...goats and sheep, and drove them off to the garrison. Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number of persons murdered was thirty-eight; those who... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Scotland - 1833 - 496 pages
...intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in...and horses, besides goats and sheep, and drove them oft' to the garrison of Fort William. Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number of persons... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in...Glencoe, save an old man of eighty, whom they slew ; and afterburning such houses as were yet unconsumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1844 - 308 pages
...intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in the forenoon, they found no Mac Donald alive in Glencoe, save an old man of eighty, whom they slew ; and after burning such houses... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English drama - 1846 - 638 pages
...Glencoe, save an old man of eighty, whom they slew ; and after burning such house* aa were yet unconsumcd, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting...of cattle and horses, besides goats and sheep, and droTe them off to the garrison of Fort William. Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number... | |
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... the evening preceding the slaughter ; and had he reached the eastern passes out of Glencoe by four in the morning, as he calculated, he must have intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers.... 
